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Re: displaying one character per line.
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
Re: displaying one character per line. |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:23:09 +0000 |
User-agent: |
tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) |
Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> wrote on Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:33:24
-0600:
> What to do to get this to look like this:
> W
> h
> a
> t
> d
> o
> y
> o
> u
> g
> e
> t
> i
> f
> y
> o
> u
> m
> u
> l
> t
> i
> p
> l
> y
> s
> i
> x
> b
> y
> n
> i
> n
> e
> ?
> I don't mean just the search-and-replace solution: I am thinking that
> the buffer should have the same content as it does normally, just shown
> in this weird display mode. I'd also like to be able to do a
> word-based version of the same thing:
If it's not too intrusive a question, why? I mean, is it to satisfy an
"Emacs can do anything" challenge, or do you want to have 40 windows side
by side in a frame, or what?
Just wondering. :-)
--
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter
(like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").