Physically Rotate Text

Physically Rotate Text

[Tory S. Anderson]

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? 

Re: Physically Rotate Text

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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:

Indeed, picture-mode is lacking this functionality.
And so is artist-mode.

I have an excuse: I'm a types guy.

But about all you users?  What's your excuse?  What have you been doing
all these years instead of writing a rectangle-rotate function?


        Stefan

Re: Physically Rotate Text

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> But about all you users? What's your excuse? What
> have you been doing all these years instead of
> writing a rectangle-rotate function?

If there isn't a piece of code that does this somewhere
on the web or in an MELPA package first thing would be
to examine if some other Lisper (not Elisper) did it,
second thing would be to check for a shell tool that
could be incorporated.

And - why do you want this, Mr. Anderson? :)

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Re: Physically Rotate Text

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>> But about all you users? What's your excuse? What
>> have you been doing all these years instead of
>> writing a rectangle-rotate function?
>
> If there isn't a piece of code that does this somewhere
> on the web or in an MELPA package first thing would be
> to examine if some other Lisper (not Elisper) did it,
> second thing would be to check for a shell tool that
> could be incorporated.

Of course there is: rotate-ccw-region is in:

http://www.informatimago.com/develop/emacs/emacs/pjb-transpose.el


> And - why do you want this, Mr. Anderson? :)

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Re: Physically Rotate Text

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

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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__Pascal Bourguignon__                 http://www.informatimago.com/
“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a
dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to
keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk

Re: Physically Rotate Text

[Nicolas Richard]

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
> torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>> 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:
> M-x rotate-ccw-region RET

Google says this is one of your own function, which means one should
first load e.g.
http://www.informatimago.com/develop/emacs/emacs/pjb-transpose.el

-- 
Nico.

Re: Physically Rotate Text

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

On 10 Sep 2014, at 08:25, Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
>> torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>>> 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:
>> M-x rotate-ccw-region RET
> 
> Google says this is one of your own function, which means one should
> first load e.g.
> http://www.informatimago.com/develop/emacs/emacs/pjb-transpose.el


Oops, sorry, I made a mistake while checking, I thought it was a predefined one.
— 
__Pascal Bourguignon__

Re: Physically Rotate Text

[Stefan Monnier]

> Oops, sorry, I made a mistake while checking, I thought it was a predefined one.

Following the Elisp coding convention of adding a "package prefix" is
helpful to try and avoid such surprises.


        Stefan

Re: Physically Rotate Text

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Following the Elisp coding convention of adding a
> "package prefix" is helpful to try and avoid such
> surprises.

Also, you can use `C-h f' - often you will be able to
tell from where it is defined if you did it or someone
else.

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Re: Physically Rotate Text

[Tory S. Anderson]

> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
>> torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>>> 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:
>> M-x rotate-ccw-region RET
> 
> Google says this is one of your own function, which means one should
> first load e.g.
> http://www.informatimago.com/develop/emacs/emacs/pjb-transpose.el

Ah, knew I could count on you guys!

>> And - why do you want this, Mr. Anderson? :)
Maybe I'm just a lowly designer who wants to be able to convert ASCII bar graphs to column graphs. Yeah, that's it. Certainly nothing to do with my requiring this function to unravel the Matrix. Nope. 

Re: Physically Rotate Text

[Emanuel Berg]

torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:

> Certainly nothing to do with my requiring this
> function to unravel the Matrix.

Next time, ask for that instead!

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