From: Dmitri Paduchikh <dpaduchikh@gmail.com>
To: Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: proposal: edit-rectangle
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:17:18 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuo9s2wx.fsf@gmail.com> (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> wrote:
JW> This is functionality I'd like to add to rect.el. It allows you to specify a
JW> rectangular region, and then edit just the contents of that rectangle in a
JW> separate buffer. When finished (C-c C-c), it replaces the old rectangle using
JW> insert-rectangle with the new contents.
JW> I'd appreciate comments on usability, fitness, etc.
There is one inconvenience: user is responsible for keeping all the
lines of rectangle of the equal length, otherwise the rectangular
structure at the destination breaks.
Regards,
Dmitri Paduchikh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-06 19:17 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 [this message]
2016-10-06 19:38 ` John Mastro
2016-10-06 20:23 ` Alain Schneble
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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