From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: rectangle operations - narrowing? Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:50:08 -0700 Message-ID: References: <2cd46e7f0607101015x74d02eb3k72de3466ccc7ed23@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152553832 22275 80.91.229.2 (10 Jul 2006 17:50:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:50:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 10 19:50:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fzztq-0006HS-U3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:50:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fzztq-0000mL-9s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:50:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fzztd-0000lo-EM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:50:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fzztc-0000lU-Hl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fzztc-0000lQ-Aj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [148.87.113.118] (helo=rgminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1Fzzuk-000611-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:51:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.50]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id k6AHoAuS012870 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:50:10 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dradams-lap.us.oracle.com [130.35.177.126]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with SMTP id k6AHo9xU010594 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:50:09 -0600 Original-To: "Emacs-Devel" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <2cd46e7f0607101015x74d02eb3k72de3466ccc7ed23@mail.gmail.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56896 Archived-At: there's a package, table.el, which does some stuff that's related, though coming from a different direction. it's concerned with rectangular regions that are delineated by particular characters - but it provides for things like auto-fill and motion commands that are constrained to the bounds of those rectangles. (i mention this in the hopes that there's some unification of effort possible. i am frustrated by the lack of control of the auto-fill in table.el, for instance, and would love to have it and related functionality generalized as you're suggesting, to generic emacs operations confined to rectangular regions. it's too hard to get the current, specialized operations to do what i need.) Thanks, Ken. I'll take a look at that too.