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Re: Rectangular regions


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Rectangular regions
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 09:00:00 +0200

> From: Josh <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 16:35:05 -0700
> Cc: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>,
>       Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,
>       emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> 
> I also use rectangle commands in programming modes from time to
> time, and not in comments.  For example, I can often perform
> simultaneous edits to common substrings of columnar data such as
> enum elements far more efficiently with a rectangle command than I
> could using a keyboard macro or replace-regexp.

The important questions: are these uses more frequent than using GUD
on the same sources?

> I also use rectangle commands quite often when when transforming
> extracts from log files into a form suitable for programmatic use.

In this case, the rectangular mark is not set in a buffer where the
major mode supports some programming language.  So I don't think these
cases count for the discussion at hand.



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