From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Physically Rotate Text
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:03:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iokwo91y.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.8523.1410269317.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
> If this weren't emacs, I wouldn't be surprised not to have a physical rotate function.
>
> Here's what I'm looking for: the ability to change a block from a horizontal to a vertical layout of text. This would be part of emacs super ASCII non-graphical powers, so that if I'm modelling a bar chart, I can convert it to a column chart:
>
> XXX
> XXXXXXX
> XXXXX
> XXXXXXXXX
>
> becomes:
>
> X
> X
> X X
> X X
> XXX
> XXX
> XXXX
> XXXX
> XXXX
>
> Any ideas?
M-x rotate-ccw-region RET
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2014-09-09 20:03 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2014-09-10 6:25 ` Physically Rotate Text Nicolas Richard
2014-09-10 7:53 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-09-10 12:31 ` Stefan Monnier
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2014-09-10 21:43 ` Emanuel Berg
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2014-09-10 9:32 ` Tory S. Anderson
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2014-09-10 21:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-09 13:28 Tory S. Anderson
2014-09-09 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.8528.1410271765.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-09 20:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-10 8:51 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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