From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Physically Rotate Text Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 10:08:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87oauohqis.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410271784 3006 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2014 14:09:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 14:09:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 09 16:09:38 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRM6x-0004OR-Tb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:09:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49937 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRM6x-0006wd-FR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 10:09:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50266) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRM6c-0006uB-GO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 10:09:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRM6S-0005wO-M5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 10:09:14 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42433) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRM6S-0005wC-Ew for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 10:09:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRM6N-00043J-HU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:08:59 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-165-145-6.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.145.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:08:59 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-145-6.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:08:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-145-6.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FNnf0r03HUshmUmoDTaPb5a4SaI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99735 Archived-At: > 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