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bug#52265: Wishlist: Behavior of rectangles when last line is short
From: |
Alan Third |
Subject: |
bug#52265: Wishlist: Behavior of rectangles when last line is short |
Date: |
Sat, 4 Dec 2021 21:18:21 +0000 |
On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 12:06:52AM +0100, Tor Kringeland wrote:
> 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.
Try C-x SPC, that should put you into a rectangle mode which lets you
specify a rectangle that extends past the end of the line.
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Alan Third
bug#52265: Wishlist: Behavior of rectangles when last line is short,
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