From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: When using rectangle-mark-mode in an editable dired buffer, how can I edit the region? Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 17:54:33 +0100 Message-ID: <878trtath2.fsf@web.de> References: <20161205233431659351400@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481043363 19110 195.159.176.226 (6 Dec 2016 16:56:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 16:56:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: s1ohy@waifu.club Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 06 17:55:56 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cEJ24-00045a-66 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2016 17:55:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33248 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEJ28-0007Eu-6I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2016 11:56:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59412) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEJ0x-0006b9-1i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2016 11:54:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEJ0t-0003fg-UE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2016 11:54:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:61986) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cEJ0t-0003fH-JN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2016 11:54:43 -0500 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([90.186.2.160]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb001 [213.165.67.108]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Mdueb-1c2PpZ31cz-00PePT; Tue, 06 Dec 2016 17:54:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20161205233431659351400@bob.proulx.com> (Bob Proulx's message of "Tue, 6 Dec 2016 00:25:06 -0700") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:+3AiWynuJD6W7t3dm6cjO+axsKn5DWi+nI2JJVbtWhZW2Co5d2L orYiQ6XypcvDdTB56AlwMIhE5HO09KYgsuq94uX6KFyHN1QDkCV98CimYZb1tkrg/nfunL7 sfX+Aycert+pnCuebMybfZIGYJZCCJVq4z1fjjTWgRnvLt/d/vNtMNSFNO2+KupzZ4bE2oy 3QLm50/PcZUFPo9KWp8IQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:fH6clXwGG/4=:CtlzADinbbyIKBm1d9U+wR 9ugXrEGmg2Xp0dpi6LeUyKL+sb4au4qEG1wgHn8/0VONH4jXXLUm5ZIe152bfKbi6E0d4MKQa 73YEJMUnX5sHWwekcHWzKcvICAEcUtiaWWXF5Yvv7f/jb/3GPP71+1XlDm+eKTScrkRVgEdyq nnU6SuMDRrapow6TLnn2rHRaIUZ+7/stJeSZ/sruP19IshWhOG1REfDtj+M0QpaadXK2ZXFaJ xRejiFRXyWu780azB6osrwjkzLhmLopJR246/LfuH7M8hjww3H1ektiChwRd+OP/h/K5p47UN bEIXL5MmVgET8jfnhGPJF99FXdPU1Qjd8OkgxAkZ85twl6KIY3AMRlaUnTTn6on+p/dowosVJ YuFgVvG0Z8+ink5RijkxGpuA5cE9rc+hKMAJxDSPGs1hn8j7tBDv6OEmZpyibVp3okv5uIURd 9bhJ9WJg4xzHK7hPQdNKcfqL3v6INl9ROdva6HhUynm7n6BNdNmmhzaIZC6E0p9gX20h/7vJZ tsZUoHCIXda0LbBxbzM2AsDGtqvPj21pSp03LSRCPMZq3Yx4vmKw1YRRel5HbwvIaWTuLQQHs mixPlUjYUzNK2jl5OZUwA8QzdUF4x5S2Dj/CTvoI8+PKS3RMWX8xf6a+AXGhRRHkfkEFqKKk9 HzGsmxajp+LMCf1BEhOli7WxNwZBJYOIu3JY4dgydarTOBFh5zlYVV65c2t1cDXb52Fpe+4HI 3Go2fZ+8RimeFKgT+5+8MvM53M6mS2ag3WUSG2jon9JXc/PdMfPqeBMsbLc4aG/gttu6Q+kg X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.4 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111879 Archived-At: Hi Bob, some thoughts: You could kill the rectangle from writable dired, paste it into a helper buffer, do your modifications there, kill the modified text as a rectangle from there, and paste the rectangle back to wdired. You may have to handle introduced trailing whitespace, however. Other options are keyboard macros, dired-map-over-marks, dired-do-rename-regexp - or you might like to use "multiple-cursors.el", I guess it comes closest to your initial idea, AFAIR it support multiple regions (one separate pseudo-region per line) and can run commands once per every pseudo-region. Michael.