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bug#52265: Wishlist: Behavior of rectangles when last line is short
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#52265: Wishlist: Behavior of rectangles when last line is short |
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Sat, 04 Dec 2021 23:12:21 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Tor Kringeland <tor.a.s.kringeland@ntnu.no> writes:
> I should have been more clear. I used `kill-rectangle' to kill the
> region so that I can yank it as a column to the right of the three first
> lines; this is done using `yank-rectangle' at the end of the first line,
> after inserting a number of spaces.
Oh, I see. 😀 Well, that makes more sense, then.
> The behavior in the second point is more geared toward this specific
> example, but it's also a general one. Basically it's about allowing the
> user to optionally specify what column separator to use. The default
> one is tabs and spaces for visual alignment. In my CSV example a comma
> would be used. And you could /e.g./ use a vertical bar for `org-mode'
> tables.
I think there's a separate package for doing this... er... something
about tabular mode, but I forget what it's called. It mogrifies text
into a table, and from that you can export into various formats. Or was
it table.el? It's been a long while since I used it last.
> As a sidenote, `org-mode' already sidesteps this last issue by having
> the command `org-table-create-or-convert-from-region' which can create a
> table from the resulting columns after yanking the rectangle. Maybe
> something similar could be done in `csv-mode'? It would solve the issue
> wrt. my second point, though I still think there is some general use in
> being able to specify the column separator.
I think selecting prefix characters etc just isn't general enough. When
creating a CSV file, for instance, you want to get rid of the spaces,
too. So creating a table and then exporting (via various rules) seems
more useful.
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bug#52265: Wishlist: Behavior of rectangles when last line is short, Alan Third, 2021/12/04