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From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Fleischer <danflscr@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Right justify the comments starting from the position of `#' for all lines.
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 23:18:00 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGP6POKFaLAPEHVhcSAuM0OKJCYJfKy4D7QK3+G5ceTVaQ7tMw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2sfxqxen2.fsf@gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 10:43 PM Daniel Fleischer <danflscr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hongyi Zhao [2021-09-27 Mon 22:04] wrote:
>
> > Thank you very much. It really works. BTW, how to adjust/control/set
> > the position of the starting '#' in the ultimate aligned results?
>
> Call the function with 'C-u'. It will ask you some questions, use the
> same '#' but you now can specify the "amount of spacing".
>
> Another option is using the wonderful CUA-rectangle mode. It's very (!)

Do you use `!' for emphasizing?

> powerful but a bit hidden, see https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/16902
> for documentation.

The corresponding source code is located at
<https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/79b5d66bd66458f6e669adee2698e9fd18c4bc3a/lisp/emulation/cua-base.el#L131-L251>.

> It allows you to create blocks, fill them with
> strings, fill them with integers series, insert/append text, kill,
> reverse, align, sort and more.

Thank you for letting me know about it

HZ



  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-27 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-27  9:54 Right justify the comments starting from the position of `#' for all lines Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-27 13:25 ` Daniel Fleischer
2021-09-27 14:04   ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-27 14:43     ` Daniel Fleischer
2021-09-27 15:18       ` Hongyi Zhao [this message]
2021-09-28  3:39 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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