Re: question / proposal for emacs release.

[jpkotta]

On Oct 25, 10:32 am, Toy Yoda <gtdeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Is there a feature in GNU emacs that can help me do the following...
>
> I'd like to be able to have rectangle-edit print out a sequence of
> numbers.  So, many times I would like to rectangle insert -for
> example- the following:
>
> 0
> 1
> 2
> 3
> ...
>
> When you give input, if you zero prefix the starting number, it will
> zero prefix the sequence so that all the numbers take up the same
> width.  If you prefix or suffix the starting number with a white
> space, emacs will print all the numbers with the same width using
> whitespace padding that will either be right or left justified.
>
> So, is there some package out there now that does this?
>
> If not, would this be something cool to add as a feature to the
> standard rectangle edit?  And, where do I propose such a feature?
>
> thanks!

It's already in cua-rect.el.  I'm pretty sure you don't need to enable
CUA bindings in order to use this feature.

M-x cua-set-rectangle-mark (CUA mode binds this to C-<return>)
set the rectangle with arrows or mouse
M-n or M-x cua-sequence-rectangle