;; 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.
+;; ### NOTE: this file was almost completely rewritten by Didier Verna
+;; <didier@xemacs.org> in July 1999.
;;; Global key bindings
;;; 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
+;; FIXME: this function should be replaced by `apply-on-rectangle'
(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
(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
(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
+;; 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.
(defun extract-rectangle-line (startcol endcol lines)
(let (start end begextra endextra line)
(move-to-column startcol)
(defconst spaces-strings
'["" " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " "])
-;; this one is untouched --dv
(defun spaces-string (n)
"Return a string with N spaces."
(if (<= n 8) (aref spaces-strings n)
(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.
(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)
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