Re: `move-end-of-line' in `rectangular region': `goto-longest-line'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 06:16:11 +0100
> 
> On 2018-10-30 at 06:07, Garreau, Alexandre wrote:
> > Try copying that (without “> ” prefixes) with rectangular selection:
> >> a
> >> aaa
> >> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> >> aaa
> >> a
> 
> (This is a followup because initially I wanted to talk about this in my
> other mail, and subject are near.)
> 
> Something I wished existed out of the box with rectangular-selection, is
> C-e (`move-end-of-line') going not at the end of the current line, but
> at “max pos” horizontally, that is, on the current line, n chars away
> where n is the number of chars of the longest line in (I guess,
> non-rectangular) region.  As C-e is often used, I wished its first call
> went at the end-of-line, and only a second times it will go at a such
> position.

cua-rect can do that.