From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Physically Rotate Text Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:03:53 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87iokwo91y.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410293448 4719 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2014 20:10:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 20:10:48 +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 22:10:41 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 1XRRkK-0000jP-Ob for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:10:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51700 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRRkJ-0006UD-TT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:10:35 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Trace: individual.net HW/yR83cVlhwF3VU0H1oOQ5LDhq/ox856Pn4ri/4N/Hqf/13m6 Cancel-Lock: sha1:NDg5NzYyMmZjMjlhM2UxZjc1ZTE1YmNiYWI2NjI3NzUzYjg0YzY0OA== sha1:3XqylKgJeHZeQ5CpFfcXhTh8Zwo= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207472 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:99746 Archived-At: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes: > 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: > > XXX > XXXXXXX > XXXXX > XXXXXXXXX > > becomes: > > X > X > X X > X X > XXX > XXX > XXXX > XXXX > XXXX > > Any ideas? M-x rotate-ccw-region RET -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk