From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alain Schneble Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: proposal: edit-rectangle Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 22:23:21 +0200 Message-ID: <86y421qlae.fsf@realize.ch> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475785528 31338 195.159.176.226 (6 Oct 2016 20:25:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 20:25:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (windows-nt) To: Emacs Development Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 06 22:25:25 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bsFEC-0006ms-Tp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2016 22:25:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59220 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsFEB-000102-Gf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2016 16:25:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52276) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsFD9-0000Rd-Sa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2016 16:24:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsFD5-0001U3-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2016 16:24:11 -0400 Original-Received: from clientmail.realize.ch ([46.140.89.53]:1852) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsFD5-0001Sp-FB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2016 16:24:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rintintin.hq.realize.ch.lan.rit (Unknown [192.168.0.105]) by clientmail.realize.ch with ESMTP ; Thu, 6 Oct 2016 22:24:03 +0200 Original-Received: from myngb (192.168.66.64) by rintintin.hq.realize.ch.lan.rit (192.168.0.105) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.516.32; Thu, 6 Oct 2016 22:23:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Thu, 06 Oct 2016 10:08:19 -0700") X-ClientProxiedBy: rintintin.hq.realize.ch.lan.rit (192.168.0.105) To rintintin.hq.realize.ch.lan.rit (192.168.0.105) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows NT kernel [generic] X-Received-From: 46.140.89.53 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208041 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: > This is functionality I'd like to add to rect.el. It allows you to specify a > rectangular region, and then edit just the contents of that rectangle in a > separate buffer. When finished (C-c C-c), it replaces the old rectangle using > insert-rectangle with the new contents. Thanks, that's a useful addition. I usually like to be able to cancel editing with C-c C-k in scenarios like this. Would you find it useful too? Alain