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Re: When using rectangle-mark-mode in an editable dired buffer, how can
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: When using rectangle-mark-mode in an editable dired buffer, how can I edit the region? |
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Wed, 7 Dec 2016 00:00:07 -0700 |
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s1ohy@waifu.club wrote:
> On 2016-12-06 07:25, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > C-x C-q
> > C-x (
> > C-SPC
> > C-e M-b C-b
> > M-x upcase-initials-region RET
> > C-n
> > C-x )
> > C-x e
> > e
> > e
> > e
> > ...
> > C-x C-q
And as long as I am responding I made another mistake in the above. I
ended with C-x C-q, which will then ask you if you want to save the
result. I should have finished the dired edit using C-c C-c instead.
> Thanks for responding, Bob. Your suggestion of keyboard macros was
> great, as I was unaware I could combine them with non-interactive
> commands and mark-region.
I use regions with macros a lot. I consider complex macros somewhat a
brute force solution. But they do work and I use them a lot.
> Unfortunately, your suggestion, quoted above, only works if I
> manually position the cursor at the beginning of the filename, thus
> not being able to quickly repeat it with F4 or call it with a
> numeric argument.
And that was another mistake in the above. Because I was slightly
confused when I composed the macro above. Normally in dired mode both
C-n, n, and C-p, p (dired-next-line as you found) snap to the
beginning of the file entry. Therefore when I wrote the above that is
what I was thinking would happen. Oops. It's a bug in my example.
Sorry. But at least you figured it out and were able to add an
additional emacs tool into your toolbox. :-)
> But, to make your suggestion work I can use `dired-next-line`, which
> places the cursor at the the beginning of the next filename.
Good! I am glad you figured it out.
B.V. Raghav wrote:
> (set-goal-column ARG)
> It is bound to C-x C-n.
That is a good idea!
Bob