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2008-04-27 Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
* org/org.el (org-html-level-start): Always have id's in HTML
(org-export-as-html): Use `org-link-protocols' to
retrieve the export form of the link.
(org-add-link-type): Final parameter renamed from PUBLISH. Better
documentation of how it is to be used. Avoid double entries for
the same link type.
(org-add-link-props): New function.
(org-modules-loaded): New variable.
(org-load-modules-maybe, org-set-modules): New function.
(org-modules): New option.
(org-mode, org-cycle, orgstruct-mode, org-run-like-in-org-mode)
(orgtbl-mode, org-store-link, org-insert-link-global)
(org-open-at-point): Call `org-load-modules-maybe'.
(org-search-view): Add more text properties.
(org-agenda-schedule, org-agenda-deadline): Allow also in
search-type agendas.
(org-search-view): Order of arguments has been changed.
Interpret prefix-arg as TODO-ONLY.
(org-agenda, org-run-agenda-series, org-agenda-manipulate-query):
Take new argument order of `org-search-view' into account.
(org-todo-only): New variable.
(org-search-syntax-table): New variable and function.
(org-search-view): Do the search with the special syntax table.
(define-obsolete-function-alias): Make work with XEmacs.
(org-add-planning-info): Use old date as default when modifying an
existing deadline or scheduled item.
(org-agenda-compute-time-span): Make argument N optional.
(org-agenda-format-date-aligned): Require `cal-iso'.
(org-agenda-list): Include week into into agenda heading, don't
list it at each date (only on Mondays).
(org-read-date-analyze): Define local variable `iso-date'.
(org-agenda-format-date-aligned): Remove dependency on
`calendar-time-from-absolute'.
(org-remember-apply-template, org-go-to-remember-target):
Interpret filenames relative to `org-directory'.
(org-complete): Silently fail when trying to complete
keywords that don't have a default value.
(org-get-current-options): Added a #+DATE: option.
(org-additional-option-like-keywords): Removed "DATE:" from the
list of additional keywords.
(org-export-as-html): Removed (current-time) as unnecessary second
argument of `format-time-string'.
(org-clock-find-position): Handle special case at end of
buffer.
(org-agenda-day-view): New argument DAY-OF-YEAR, pass it on to
`org-agenda-change-time-span'.
(org-agenda-week-view): New argument ISO-WEEK, pass it on to
`org-agenda-change-time-span'.
(org-agenda-month-view): New argument MONTH, pass it on to
`org-agenda-change-time-span'.
(org-agenda-year-view): New argument YEAR, pass it on to
`org-agenda-change-time-span'.
(org-agenda-change-time-span): New optional argument N, pass it on
to `org-agenda-compute-time-span'.
(org-agenda-compute-time-span): New argument N, interpret it by
changing the starting day.
(org-small-year-to-year): New function.
(org-scheduled-past-days): Respect
`org-scheduled-past-days'.
(org-auto-repeat-maybe): Make sure that repeating
dates are pushed into the future, and that the shift is at least
one interval, never 0.
(org-update-checkbox-count): Fix bug with checkbox
counting.
(org-add-note): New command.
(org-add-log-setup): Renamed from `org-add-log-maybe'.
(org-log-note-headings): New entry for plain notes (i.e. notes not
related to state changes or clocking).
(org-get-org-file): Check for availability of
`remember-data-file'.
(org-cached-entry-get): Allow a regexp value for
`org-use-property-inheritance'.
(org-use-property-inheritance): Allow regexp value. Fix bug in
customization type.
(org-use-tag-inheritance): Allow a list and a regexp value for
this variable.
(org-scan-tags, org-get-tags-at): Implement selective tag
inheritance.
(org-entry-get): Respect value `selective' for the INHERIT
argument.
(org-tag-inherit-p, org-property-inherit-p): New functions.
(org-agenda-format-date-aligned): Allow 10 characters for
weekday, to acomodate German locale.
(org-add-archive-files): New function.
(org-agenda-files): New argument `ext', to
get archive files as well.
(org-tbl-menu): Protect the use of variables that
are only available when org-table.el gets loaded.
(org-read-agenda-file-list): Error if `org-agenda-files' is a
single directory.
(org-open-file): Allow a batch process to trigger
waiting after executing a system command.
(org-store-link): Link to headline when there is not
target and no region in an org-mode buffer when creating a link.
(org-link-types-re): New variable.
(org-make-link-regexps): Compute `org-link-types-re'.
(org-make-link-description-function): New option.
(org-agenda-date, org-agenda-date-weekend): New faces.
(org-archive-sibling-heading): New option.
(org-archive-to-archive-sibling): New function.
(org-iswitchb): New command.
(org-buffer-list): New function.
(org-agenda-columns): Also try the #+COLUMNS line in
the buffer associated with the entry at point (or with the first
entry in the agenda view).
(org-modules): Add entry for org-bibtex.el.
(org-completion-fallback-command): Moved into `org-completion'
group.
(org-clock-heading-function): Moved to `org-progress' group.
(org-auto-repeat-maybe): Make sure that a note can
be enforces if `org-log-repeat' is `note'.
(org-modules): Allow additional symbols for external
packages.
(org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c): Allow for `org-clock-overlays' to be
undefined.
(org-clock-goto): Hide drawers after showing an
entry with `org-clock-goto.'
(org-shiftup, org-shiftdown, org-shiftright, org-shiftleft): Try
also a clocktable block shift.
(org-clocktable-try-shift): New function.
(org-columns-hscoll-title): New function.
(org-columns-previous-hscroll): New variable.
(org-columns-full-header-line-format): New variable.
(org-columns-display-here-title, org-columns-remove-overlays):
Install `org-columns-hscoll-title' in post-command-hook.
* org/org.el: Split into many small files.
* org/org-agenda.el: New file, split off from org.el.
* org/org-archive.el: New file, split off from org.el.
* org/org-bbdb.el: New file.
* org/org-bibtex.el: New file, split off from org.el.
* org/org-clock.el: New file, split off from org.el.
* org/org-colview.el: New file, split off from org.el.
* org/org-compat.el: New file, split off from org.el.
* org/org-exp.el: New file, split off from org.el.
* org/org-faces.el: New file, split off from org.el.
* org/org-gnus.el: New file, split off from org.el.
* org/org-info.el: New file, split off from org.el.
* org/org-infojs.el: New file.
* org/org-irc.el: New file.
* org/org-macs.el: New file, split off from org.el.
* org/org-mew.el: New file.
* org/org-mhe.el: New file, split off from org.el.
* org/org-publish.el: New file, split off from org.el.
* org/org-remember.el: New file, split off from org.el.
* org/org-rmail.el: New file, split off from org.el.
* org/org-table.el: New file, split off from org.el.
* org/org-vm.el: New file, split off from org.el.
* org/org-wl.el: New file, split off from org.el.
2008-04-27 Jason Riedy <jason@acm.org>
* lisp/org-table.el (orgtbl-to-generic): Add a :remove-nil-lines
parameter that supresses lines that evaluate to NIL.
(orgtbl-get-fmt): New inline function for
picking apart formats that may be lists.
(orgtbl-apply-fmt): New inline function for applying formats that
may be functions.
(orgtbl-eval-str): New inline function for strings that may be
functions.
(orgtbl-format-line, orgtbl-to-generic): Use and document.
(orgtbl-to-latex, orgtbl-to-texinfo): Document.
(*orgtbl-llfmt*, *orgtbl-llstart*)
(*orgtbl-llend*): Dynamic variables for last-line formatting.
(orgtbl-format-section): Shift formatting to support detecting the
last line and formatting it specially.
(orgtbl-to-generic): Document :ll* formats. Set to the non-ll
formats unless overridden.
(orgtbl-to-latex): Suggest using :llend to suppress the final \\.
(*orgtbl-table*, *orgtbl-rtn*): Dynamically
bound variables to hold the input collection of lines and output
formatted text.
(*orgtbl-hline*, *orgtbl-sep*, *orgtbl-fmt*, *orgtbl-efmt*,
(*orgtbl-lfmt*, *orgtbl-lstart*, *orgtbl-lend*): Dynamically bound
format parameters.
(orgtbl-format-line): New function encapsulating formatting for a
single line.
(orgtbl-format-section): Similar for each section. Rebinding the
dynamic vars customizes the formatting for each section.
(orgtbl-to-generic): Use orgtbl-format-line and
orgtbl-format-section.
(org-get-param): Now unused, so delete.
(orgtbl-gather-send-defs): New function to
gather all the SEND definitions before a table.
(orgtbl-send-replace-tbl): New function to find the RECEIVE
corresponding to the current name.
(orgtbl-send-table): Use the previous two functions and implement
multiple destinations for each table.
* doc/org.texi (A LaTeX example): Note that fmt may be a
one-argument function, and efmt may be a two-argument function.
(Radio tables): Document multiple destinations.
2008-04-27 Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
* org/org-agenda.el (org-add-to-diary-list): New function.
(org-prefix-has-effort): New variable.
(org-sort-agenda-noeffort-is-high): New option.
(org-agenda-columns-show-summaries)
(org-agenda-columns-compute-summary-properties): New options.
(org-format-agenda-item): Compute the duration of the item.
(org-agenda-weekend-days): New variable.
(org-agenda-list, org-timeline): Use the proper faces for dates in
the agenda and timeline buffers.
(org-agenda-archive-to-archive-sibling): New command.
(org-agenda-start-with-clockreport-mode): New option.
(org-agenda-clockreport-parameter-plist): New option.
(org-agenda-clocktable-mode): New variable.
(org-agenda-deadline-leaders): Allow a function value for the
deadline leader.
(org-agenda-get-deadlines): Deal with new function value.
* lisp/org-clock.el (org-clock): New customization group.
(org-clock-into-drawer, org-clock-out-when-done)
(org-clock-in-switch-to-state, org-clock-heading-function): Moved
into the new group.
(org-clock-out-remove-zero-time-clocks): New option.
(org-clock-out): Use `org-clock-out-remove-zero-time-clocks'.
(org-dblock-write:clocktable): Allow a Lisp form for the scope
parameter.
(org-dblock-write:clocktable): Fixed bug with total time
calculation.
(org-dblock-write:clocktable): Request the unrestricted list of
files.
(org-get-clocktable): New function.
(org-dblock-write:clocktable): Make sure :tstart and :tend can not
only be strings but also integers (an absolute day number) and
lists (m d y).
* org/org-colview.el (org-columns-next-allowed-value)
(org-columns-edit-value): Limit the effort for updatig in the
agenda to recomputing a single file.
(org-columns-compute): Only write property value if it has
changed. This avoids raising the buffer-change-flag
unnecessarily.
(org-agenda-colview-summarize)
(org-agenda-colview-compute): New functions.
(org-agenda-columns): Call `org-agenda-colview-summarize'.
* org/org-exp.el (org-export-run-in-background): New option.
(org-export-icalendar): Allow a batch process to trigger waiting
after executing a system command.
(org-export-preprocess-string): Renamed-from
`org-cleaned-string-for-export'.
(org-export-html-style): Made target class look like normal text.
(org-export-as-html): Make use of the better proprocessing in
`org-cleaned-string-for-export'.
(org-cleaned-string-for-export): Better treatment of heuristic
targets, many more internal links will now work in HTML export.
(org-get-current-options): Incorporate LINK_UP, LINK_HOME, and
INFOJS.
(org-export-inbuffer-options-extra): New variable.
(org-export-options-filters): New hook.
(org-infile-export-plist): Find also the settings keywords in
`org-export-inbuffer-options-extra'.
(org-infile-export-plist): Allow multiple #+OPTIONS lines and
multiple #+INFOJS_OPT lines.
(org-export-html-handle-js-options): New function.
(org-export-html-infojs-setup): New option.
(org-export-as-html): Call `org-export-html-handle-js-options'.
Add autoload to all entry points.
(org-skip-comments): Function removed.
* org/org-table.el (org-table-make-reference): Extra parenthesis
around single fields, to make sure that algebraic formulas get
correctly interpreted by calc.
(org-table-current-column): No longer interactive.
* org/org-export-latex.el (org-export-latex-preprocess): Renamed
from `org-export-latex-cleaned-string'.
2008-04-27 Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org>
* org/org-publish.el (org-publish-get-base-files-1): New function.
(org-publish-get-base-files): Use it.
(org-publish-temp-files): New variable.
Don't require 'dired-aux anymore.
(org-publish-initial-buffer): New variable.
(org-publish-org-to, org-publish): Use it.
(org-publish-get-base-files-1): Bug fix: get
the proper list of files when recursing thru a directory.
(org-publish-get-base-files): Use the :exclude property to skip
both files and directories.
author | Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> |
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date | Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:33:39 +0000 |
parents | 1e3a407766b9 |
children | ee5932bf781d |
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;;; rect.el --- rectangle functions for GNU Emacs ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 ;; 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Maintainer: Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org> ;; Keywords: internal ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, ;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. ;;; Commentary: ;; This package provides the operations on rectangles that are documented ;; in the Emacs manual. ;; ### NOTE: this file has been almost completely rewritten by Didier Verna ;; <didier@xemacs.org> in July 1999. The purpose of this rewrite is to be less ;; intrusive and fill lines with whitespaces only when needed. A few functions ;; are untouched though, as noted above their definition. ;;; Code: ;;;###autoload (defun move-to-column-force (column &optional flag) "If COLUMN is within a multi-column character, replace it by spaces and tab. As for `move-to-column', passing anything but nil or t in FLAG will move to the desired column only if the line is long enough." (move-to-column column (or flag t))) ;;;###autoload (make-obsolete 'move-to-column-force 'move-to-column "21.2") ;; not used any more --dv ;; extract-rectangle-line stores lines into this list ;; to accumulate them for extract-rectangle and delete-extract-rectangle. (defvar operate-on-rectangle-lines) ;; ### NOTE: this function is untouched, but not used anymore apart from ;; `delete-whitespace-rectangle'. `apply-on-rectangle' is used instead. --dv (defun operate-on-rectangle (function start end coerce-tabs) "Call FUNCTION for each line of rectangle with corners at START, END. If COERCE-TABS is non-nil, convert multi-column characters that span the starting or ending columns on any line to multiple spaces before calling FUNCTION. FUNCTION is called with three arguments: position of start of segment of this line within the rectangle, number of columns that belong to rectangle but are before that position, number of columns that belong to rectangle but are after point. Point is at the end of the segment of this line within the rectangle." (let (startcol startlinepos endcol endlinepos) (save-excursion (goto-char start) (setq startcol (current-column)) (beginning-of-line) (setq startlinepos (point))) (save-excursion (goto-char end) (setq endcol (current-column)) (forward-line 1) (setq endlinepos (point-marker))) (if (< endcol startcol) (setq startcol (prog1 endcol (setq endcol startcol)))) (save-excursion (goto-char startlinepos) (while (< (point) endlinepos) (let (startpos begextra endextra) (if coerce-tabs (move-to-column startcol t) (move-to-column startcol)) (setq begextra (- (current-column) startcol)) (setq startpos (point)) (if coerce-tabs (move-to-column endcol t) (move-to-column endcol)) ;; If we overshot, move back one character ;; so that endextra will be positive. (if (and (not coerce-tabs) (> (current-column) endcol)) (backward-char 1)) (setq endextra (- endcol (current-column))) (if (< begextra 0) (setq endextra (+ endextra begextra) begextra 0)) (funcall function startpos begextra endextra)) (forward-line 1))) (- endcol startcol))) ;; The replacement for `operate-on-rectangle' -- dv (defun apply-on-rectangle (function start end &rest args) "Call FUNCTION for each line of rectangle with corners at START, END. FUNCTION is called with two arguments: the start and end columns of the rectangle, plus ARGS extra arguments. Point is at the beginning of line when the function is called." (let (startcol startpt endcol endpt) (save-excursion (goto-char start) (setq startcol (current-column)) (beginning-of-line) (setq startpt (point)) (goto-char end) (setq endcol (current-column)) (forward-line 1) (setq endpt (point-marker)) ;; ensure the start column is the left one. (if (< endcol startcol) (let ((col startcol)) (setq startcol endcol endcol col))) ;; start looping over lines (goto-char startpt) (while (< (point) endpt) (apply function startcol endcol args) (forward-line 1))) )) (defun delete-rectangle-line (startcol endcol fill) (when (= (move-to-column startcol (if fill t 'coerce)) startcol) (delete-region (point) (progn (move-to-column endcol 'coerce) (point))))) (defun delete-extract-rectangle-line (startcol endcol lines fill) (let ((pt (point-at-eol))) (if (< (move-to-column startcol (if fill t 'coerce)) startcol) (setcdr lines (cons (spaces-string (- endcol startcol)) (cdr lines))) ;; else (setq pt (point)) (move-to-column endcol t) (setcdr lines (cons (filter-buffer-substring pt (point) t) (cdr lines)))) )) ;; ### NOTE: this is actually the only function that needs to do complicated ;; stuff like what's happening in `operate-on-rectangle', because the buffer ;; might be read-only. --dv (defun extract-rectangle-line (startcol endcol lines) (let (start end begextra endextra line) (move-to-column startcol) (setq start (point) begextra (- (current-column) startcol)) (move-to-column endcol) (setq end (point) endextra (- endcol (current-column))) (setq line (buffer-substring start (point))) (if (< begextra 0) (setq endextra (+ endextra begextra) begextra 0)) (if (< endextra 0) (setq endextra 0)) (goto-char start) (while (search-forward "\t" end t) (let ((width (- (current-column) (save-excursion (forward-char -1) (current-column))))) (setq line (concat (substring line 0 (- (point) end 1)) (spaces-string width) (substring line (+ (length line) (- (point) end))))))) (if (or (> begextra 0) (> endextra 0)) (setq line (concat (spaces-string begextra) line (spaces-string endextra)))) (setcdr lines (cons line (cdr lines))))) (defconst spaces-strings '["" " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " "]) ;; this one is untouched --dv (defun spaces-string (n) "Returns a string with N spaces." (if (<= n 8) (aref spaces-strings n) (make-string n ? ))) ;;;###autoload (defun delete-rectangle (start end &optional fill) "Delete (don't save) text in the region-rectangle. The same range of columns is deleted in each line starting with the line where the region begins and ending with the line where the region ends. When called from a program the rectangle's corners are START and END. With a prefix (or a FILL) argument, also fill lines where nothing has to be deleted." (interactive "*r\nP") (apply-on-rectangle 'delete-rectangle-line start end fill)) ;;;###autoload (defun delete-extract-rectangle (start end &optional fill) "Delete the contents of the rectangle with corners at START and END. Return it as a list of strings, one for each line of the rectangle. When called from a program the rectangle's corners are START and END. With an optional FILL argument, also fill lines where nothing has to be deleted." (let ((lines (list nil))) (apply-on-rectangle 'delete-extract-rectangle-line start end lines fill) (nreverse (cdr lines)))) ;;;###autoload (defun extract-rectangle (start end) "Return the contents of the rectangle with corners at START and END. Return it as a list of strings, one for each line of the rectangle." (let ((lines (list nil))) (apply-on-rectangle 'extract-rectangle-line start end lines) (nreverse (cdr lines)))) (defvar killed-rectangle nil "Rectangle for `yank-rectangle' to insert.") ;;;###autoload (defun kill-rectangle (start end &optional fill) "Delete the region-rectangle and save it as the last killed one. When called from a program the rectangle's corners are START and END. You might prefer to use `delete-extract-rectangle' from a program. With a prefix (or a FILL) argument, also fill lines where nothing has to be deleted. If the buffer is read-only, Emacs will beep and refrain from deleting the rectangle, but put it in the kill ring anyway. This means that you can use this command to copy text from a read-only buffer. \(If the variable `kill-read-only-ok' is non-nil, then this won't even beep.)" (interactive "r\nP") (condition-case nil (setq killed-rectangle (delete-extract-rectangle start end fill)) ((buffer-read-only text-read-only) (setq killed-rectangle (extract-rectangle start end)) (if kill-read-only-ok (progn (message "Read only text copied to kill ring") nil) (barf-if-buffer-read-only) (signal 'text-read-only (list (current-buffer))))))) ;; this one is untouched --dv ;;;###autoload (defun yank-rectangle () "Yank the last killed rectangle with upper left corner at point." (interactive "*") (insert-rectangle killed-rectangle)) ;; this one is untoutched --dv ;;;###autoload (defun insert-rectangle (rectangle) "Insert text of RECTANGLE with upper left corner at point. RECTANGLE's first line is inserted at point, its second line is inserted at a point vertically under point, etc. RECTANGLE should be a list of strings. After this command, the mark is at the upper left corner and point is at the lower right corner." (let ((lines rectangle) (insertcolumn (current-column)) (first t)) (push-mark) (while lines (or first (progn (forward-line 1) (or (bolp) (insert ?\n)) (move-to-column insertcolumn t))) (setq first nil) (insert-for-yank (car lines)) (setq lines (cdr lines))))) ;;;###autoload (defun open-rectangle (start end &optional fill) "Blank out the region-rectangle, shifting text right. The text previously in the region is not overwritten by the blanks, but instead winds up to the right of the rectangle. When called from a program the rectangle's corners are START and END. With a prefix (or a FILL) argument, fill with blanks even if there is no text on the right side of the rectangle." (interactive "*r\nP") (apply-on-rectangle 'open-rectangle-line start end fill) (goto-char start)) (defun open-rectangle-line (startcol endcol fill) (when (= (move-to-column startcol (if fill t 'coerce)) startcol) (unless (and (not fill) (= (point) (point-at-eol))) (indent-to endcol)))) (defun delete-whitespace-rectangle-line (startcol endcol fill) (when (= (move-to-column startcol (if fill t 'coerce)) startcol) (unless (= (point) (point-at-eol)) (delete-region (point) (progn (skip-syntax-forward " ") (point)))))) ;;;###autoload (defalias 'close-rectangle 'delete-whitespace-rectangle) ;; Old name ;;;###autoload (defun delete-whitespace-rectangle (start end &optional fill) "Delete all whitespace following a specified column in each line. The left edge of the rectangle specifies the position in each line at which whitespace deletion should begin. On each line in the rectangle, all continuous whitespace starting at that column is deleted. When called from a program the rectangle's corners are START and END. With a prefix (or a FILL) argument, also fill too short lines." (interactive "*r\nP") (apply-on-rectangle 'delete-whitespace-rectangle-line start end fill)) ;; not used any more --dv ;; string-rectangle uses this variable to pass the string ;; to string-rectangle-line. (defvar string-rectangle-string) (defvar string-rectangle-history nil) (defun string-rectangle-line (startcol endcol string delete) (move-to-column startcol t) (if delete (delete-rectangle-line startcol endcol nil)) (insert string)) ;;;###autoload (defun string-rectangle (start end string) "Replace rectangle contents with STRING on each line. The length of STRING need not be the same as the rectangle width. Called from a program, takes three args; START, END and STRING." (interactive (progn (barf-if-buffer-read-only) (list (region-beginning) (region-end) (read-string (format "String rectangle (default %s): " (or (car string-rectangle-history) "")) nil 'string-rectangle-history (car string-rectangle-history))))) (apply-on-rectangle 'string-rectangle-line start end string t)) ;;;###autoload (defalias 'replace-rectangle 'string-rectangle) ;;;###autoload (defun string-insert-rectangle (start end string) "Insert STRING on each line of region-rectangle, shifting text right. When called from a program, the rectangle's corners are START and END. The left edge of the rectangle specifies the column for insertion. This command does not delete or overwrite any existing text." (interactive (progn (barf-if-buffer-read-only) (list (region-beginning) (region-end) (read-string (format "String insert rectangle (default %s): " (or (car string-rectangle-history) "")) nil 'string-rectangle-history (car string-rectangle-history))))) (apply-on-rectangle 'string-rectangle-line start end string nil)) ;;;###autoload (defun clear-rectangle (start end &optional fill) "Blank out the region-rectangle. The text previously in the region is overwritten with blanks. When called from a program the rectangle's corners are START and END. With a prefix (or a FILL) argument, also fill with blanks the parts of the rectangle which were empty." (interactive "*r\nP") (apply-on-rectangle 'clear-rectangle-line start end fill)) (defun clear-rectangle-line (startcol endcol fill) (let ((pt (point-at-eol))) (when (= (move-to-column startcol (if fill t 'coerce)) startcol) (if (and (not fill) (<= (save-excursion (goto-char pt) (current-column)) endcol)) (delete-region (point) pt) ;; else (setq pt (point)) (move-to-column endcol t) (setq endcol (current-column)) (delete-region pt (point)) (indent-to endcol))))) (provide 'rect) ;; arch-tag: 178847b3-1f50-4b03-83de-a6e911cc1d16 ;;; rect.el ends here