Re: ABC index

[Dante Catalfamo]

If you wanted to make the starting letter more human readable, you could 
use ?A instead of 65 :-)

On 10/27/20 6:12 PM, Daniel Martín wrote:
> Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > A friend asked how to do this
> >
> > Kate Moss
> > Elle Macpherson
> > Alicia Silverstone
> >
> > into this
> >
> > A Kate Moss
> > B Elle Macpherson
> > C Alicia Silverstone
> >
> > No idea why!
> >
> > Anyway, ABC index contest! Elisp and keyboard macros allowed!
>
> Interactively, make a rectangle selection just before the first column
> and then:
>
> C-u C-x r N 65 RET %c  RET
>
> In Lisp, you could write something like
>
> (defun rectangle-char-lines (beg end letter)
>     (interactive "r\ncStart letter:")
>     (rectangle-number-lines beg end letter "%c "))
>
> and bind it to a key.