From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: s1ohy@waifu.club Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: When using rectangle-mark-mode in an editable dired buffer, how can I edit the region? Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 02:58:54 +0000 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481001004 22544 195.159.176.226 (6 Dec 2016 05:10:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 05:10:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.2.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 06 06:10:00 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 1cE80t-0005JI-PB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2016 06:09:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46118 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cE80x-00079R-Fx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2016 00:10:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43643) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cE5yB-0002Tt-Vf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2016 21:59:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cE5y8-0007Jo-UZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2016 21:59:04 -0500 Original-Received: from cock.li ([185.100.85.212]:54390) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cE5y8-0007Iz-M3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2016 21:59:00 -0500 X-Sender: s1ohy@waifu.club X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 185.100.85.212 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 00:09:13 -0500 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:111875 Archived-At: Using rectangle-mark-mode[1] with rectangle-utils[2] I highlight a region in an editable dired buffer and call the command `upcase-initials-region`: http://gobin.io/WzjF but as you can see in the minibuffer I get the message `Text is read-only`. Is there any way I can edit the rectangle region? I'm open to other ways of doing what I want as this upcases the 'F' in 'flac', which I don't want, but I'm still interested in my original question as this could be used in other places. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Rectangles.html [2] https://github.com/thierryvolpiatto/rectangle-utils