From: Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ABC index
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:13:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86sg9zdrn5.fsf@x201.butler.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877drb5n2m.fsf@zoho.eu> (Emanuel Berg via Users list for the's message of "Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:19:29 +0100")
Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
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> Daniel Martín wrote:
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>> In Lisp, you could write something like
>>
>> (defun rectangle-char-lines (beg end letter)
>> (interactive "r\ncStart letter:")
>> (rectangle-number-lines beg end letter "%c "))
That is nice.
>
> Oh no, there is a damn function to do this already...
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png
Leo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-28 2:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-27 21:23 ABC index Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-27 22:12 ` Daniel Martín
2020-10-27 22:19 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-28 2:13 ` Leo Butler [this message]
2020-10-28 2:38 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-28 3:08 ` Dante Catalfamo
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