Re: ABC index

[Dante Catalfamo <dante@lambda.cx>]

If you wanted to make the starting letter more human readable, you could 
use ?A instead of 65 :-)

On 10/27/20 6:12 PM, Daniel Martín wrote:
> Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>> A friend asked how to do this
>>
>> Kate Moss
>> Elle Macpherson
>> Alicia Silverstone
>>
>> into this
>>
>> A Kate Moss
>> B Elle Macpherson
>> C Alicia Silverstone
>>
>> No idea why!
>>
>> Anyway, ABC index contest! Elisp and keyboard macros allowed!
>>
> 
> Interactively, make a rectangle selection just before the first column
> and then:
> 
> C-u C-x r N 65 RET %c  RET
> 
> In Lisp, you could write something like
> 
> (defun rectangle-char-lines (beg end letter)
>     (interactive "r\ncStart letter:")
>     (rectangle-number-lines beg end letter "%c "))
> 
> and bind it to a key.
>