From: Dante Catalfamo <dante@lambda.cx>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ABC index
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:08:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed233976-6e3e-64b8-2a8c-45839f048e05@lambda.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m14kmf71yl.fsf@yahoo.es>
If you wanted to make the starting letter more human readable, you could
use ?A instead of 65 :-)
On 10/27/20 6:12 PM, Daniel Martín wrote:
> Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> A friend asked how to do this
>>
>> Kate Moss
>> Elle Macpherson
>> Alicia Silverstone
>>
>> into this
>>
>> A Kate Moss
>> B Elle Macpherson
>> C Alicia Silverstone
>>
>> No idea why!
>>
>> Anyway, ABC index contest! Elisp and keyboard macros allowed!
>>
>
> Interactively, make a rectangle selection just before the first column
> and then:
>
> C-u C-x r N 65 RET %c RET
>
> 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 "))
>
> and bind it to a key.
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-28 3:08 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
2020-10-28 2:38 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-28 3:08 ` Dante Catalfamo [this message]
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