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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Function to add dashes to leading spaces in a Selected Region
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:00:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201030080005.GA26449@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-3b3d494e-f219-42ee-8a4d-fcb6b9c63e11-1604027857934@3c-app-mailcom-bs12>

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On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 04:17:37AM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:

[...]

> > Christopher Dimech wrote:
> >
> > > I need an Emacs Function to add dashes to leading spaces in
> > > a Selected Region. Require help to do this thing.

[Emanuel Berg]

> > Reading your post, "Transpose Sentences but stay at point", it would
> > be helpful if your function could also have a REVERSE option.
> 
> Good point

I think Emanuel was politely hinting at the possibility that not
everyone may find the leading dashes variant more readable.

In my personal case, I do prefer leading space (the result of
many years of doint it this way, probably).

Cheers
 - t

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-30  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-29 23:34 Emacs Function to add dashes to leading spaces in a Selected Region Christopher Dimech
2020-10-30  0:12 ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-30  2:36 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-30  3:17   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-10-30  8:00     ` tomas [this message]
2020-10-30 14:28       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-10-31 20:05         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-05  3:15 ` David Masterson

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