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From: Alain Schneble <a.s@realize.ch>
To: Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: proposal: edit-rectangle
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 22:23:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y421qlae.fsf@realize.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m27f9l5rss.fsf@newartisans.com> (John Wiegley's message of "Thu,  06 Oct 2016 10:08:19 -0700")

John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:

> This is functionality I'd like to add to rect.el. It allows you to specify a
> rectangular region, and then edit just the contents of that rectangle in a
> separate buffer. When finished (C-c C-c), it replaces the old rectangle using
> insert-rectangle with the new contents.

Thanks, that's a useful addition.  I usually like to be able to cancel
editing with C-c C-k in scenarios like this.  Would you find it useful
too?

Alain




  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-06 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-06 17:08 proposal: edit-rectangle John Wiegley
2016-10-06 17:34 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-10-06 18:08   ` John Wiegley
2016-10-06 20:49     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-06 21:00       ` Kaushal Modi
2016-10-06 18:19 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2016-10-06 18:44 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2016-10-07 20:31   ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-06 19:17 ` Dmitri Paduchikh
2016-10-06 19:38 ` John Mastro
2016-10-06 20:23 ` Alain Schneble [this message]
2016-10-06 20:26   ` Kaushal Modi
2016-10-06 20:31   ` John Wiegley
2016-10-06 21:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-06 21:42 ` Alain Schneble
2016-10-06 21:53   ` Alain Schneble

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