From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ken Manheimer" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rectangle operations - narrowing? Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:15:50 -0400 Message-ID: <2cd46e7f0607101015x74d02eb3k72de3466ccc7ed23@mail.gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152551792 15065 80.91.229.2 (10 Jul 2006 17:16:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:16:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 10 19:16:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FzzMd-0007nY-5y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:16:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FzzMc-0002Zq-GI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:16:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FzzMR-0002Yj-Bp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:15:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FzzMO-0002Xi-SN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:15:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FzzMO-0002Xf-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:15:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.185] (helo=nf-out-0910.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FzzNW-0002pq-Sd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:17:03 -0400 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i2so589022nfe for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:15:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=M0MsQsZqlDiEPt4yumrl0lj36lnYEYkuj2P6ugc/dK6lqy1VtzHEbHDuKVZ4ox+mXANx5n0OqcgcHKlCM+xISjiidh9CVX540r8blPch7+wHfVotpkG+15D/LwGR2vbcobjg0E018Sp/PcKtAvRbD3lzGH5cEKHTGYOSLLzv7Fk= Original-Received: by 10.78.151.15 with SMTP id y15mr1785829hud; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:15:50 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.202.13 with HTTP; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:15:50 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56894 Archived-At: there's a package, table.el, which does some stuff that's related, though coming from a different direction. it's concerned with rectangular regions that are delineated by particular characters - but it provides for things like auto-fill and motion commands that are constrained to the bounds of those rectangles. (i mention this in the hopes that there's some unification of effort possible. i am frustrated by the lack of control of the auto-fill in table.el, for instance, and would love to have it and related functionality generalized as you're suggesting, to generic emacs operations confined to rectangular regions. it's too hard to get the current, specialized operations to do what i need.) On 7/10/06, Drew Adams wrote: > I was thinking of perhaps doing some stuff on > rectangular areas of text (e.g. columns of text) > - in particular, searching over them, and I'd like > to know what, if anything already exists for this, > before I start trying to roll my own. I looked at the > Emacs manual Rectangles stuff and library rect.el, > but I didn't notice what I'm looking for. > > Did you also look at cua-rect? > > I haven't yet, but I will. Thanks for mentioning it. > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-devel mailing list > Emacs-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel > -- ken ken.manheimer@gmail.com http://myriadicity.net