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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: s1ohy@waifu.club
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: When using rectangle-mark-mode in an editable dired buffer, how can I edit the region?
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 17:54:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878trtath2.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161205233431659351400@bob.proulx.com> (Bob Proulx's message of "Tue, 6 Dec 2016 00:25:06 -0700")

Hi Bob,

some thoughts:

You could kill the rectangle from writable dired, paste it into a helper
buffer, do your modifications there, kill the modified text as a
rectangle from there, and paste the rectangle back to wdired.  You may
have to handle introduced trailing whitespace, however.

Other options are keyboard macros, dired-map-over-marks,
dired-do-rename-regexp - or you might like to use "multiple-cursors.el",
I guess it comes closest to your initial idea, AFAIR it support multiple
regions (one separate pseudo-region per line) and can run commands once
per every pseudo-region.


Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-06 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-06  2:58 When using rectangle-mark-mode in an editable dired buffer, how can I edit the region? s1ohy
2016-12-06  7:25 ` Bob Proulx
2016-12-06 16:54   ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2016-12-06 17:02     ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-12-06 22:26   ` s1ohy
2016-12-07  4:52     ` B.V. Raghav
2016-12-07  7:00     ` Bob Proulx

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