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bug#52265: Wishlist: Behavior of rectangles when last line is short
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Tor Kringeland |
Subject: |
bug#52265: Wishlist: Behavior of rectangles when last line is short |
Date: |
Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:06:52 +0100 |
Suppose we have the following text
text123
more text
text
first
second
third
and want to turn it into
text123,first
more text,second
text,third
using rectangles. This is problematic since the last line is shorter
than the two before. A solution to this [1] is to add spaces at the end
of the last line until it becomes the longest, mark the last three lines
with POINT being at the end of the spaces and then kill the rectangle.
Since the first line is shorter than the two following, one has to add
spaces here as well to make it the longest. After yanking the
rectangle, we're left with
text123 first
more text second
text third
This is far along the way, but I can't think of a last step to make it
into CSV format except by doing it manually.
I have a few suggestions for making this better:
1. When moving POINT to the the empty line below the line containing
"third" and killing the region starting on the line with "first",
nothing happens. How about having the whole region killed as a
rectangle in this case?
2. Having a user option or prefix argument affecting `yank-rectangle'
which when active would /e.g./ prompt the user for a string to
insert, instead of filling the space between the lines and the yanked
rectangle with tabs/spaces. Optionally, just place the given string
in front of the rectangle and put it at the end of the lines, without
worrying about visual alignment (so you wouldn't have to worry about
the first line being the longest).
With these two items, killing the first rectangle and yanking it (with
the prefix) at the end of the line would produce the desired text.
- [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/8411061
- bug#52265: Wishlist: Behavior of rectangles when last line is short,
Tor Kringeland <=
bug#52265: Wishlist: Behavior of rectangles when last line is short, Alan Third, 2021/12/04