From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Free cursor positioning. Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 08:40:47 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312558890 30917 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2011 15:41:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:41:30 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Oleksandr Gavenko'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 05 17:41:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QpMWb-0004OB-Kt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:41:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38715 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QpMWV-0001AL-RG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:41:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38609) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QpMWQ-0001AC-Tw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:41:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QpMWP-0002ar-4s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:41:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:50333) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QpMWO-0002ZR-8H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:41:13 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.4/Switch-3.4.4) with ESMTP id p75Feulj032214 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:40:58 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p75FetjO016173 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:40:55 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt103.oracle.com (abhmt103.oracle.com [141.146.116.55]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p75FenAF020859; Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:40:49 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.51.236) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:40:49 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcxTS21maZ3r2jxbRemvuOPSbdHKUAAOmrCw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6109 X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090208.4E3C0F0A.005D:SCFMA922111,ss=1,re=-4.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 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:81895 Archived-At: > Some user ask me how configure Emacs to move cursor in any position > like this done in editor of Far file manager. > > So if you press RIGHT at the end of string cursor move right > not to next > string and so on. If you type any char after the end of line > editor automatically add spaces from the end of line up to > inserted new > char. > > This useful for those who like rectangle command because to mark > the rectangle: > > line 1 short > line 2 toooooooooooooo looooooooong > line 3 short > > you need type spaces after 'short' to include tooo looong. Sorry, I'm not sure what you're asking, or even whether you're asking a question. But if I had to guess I'd say you might want to take a look at picture mode. If that's unrelated, then please ignore.