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Re: Physically Rotate Text


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Physically Rotate Text
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 10:08:43 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux)

> If this weren't Emacs, I wouldn't be surprised not to have a physical
> rotate function.  Here's what I'm looking for: the ability to change
> a block from a horizontal to a vertical layout of text.  This would be
> part of emacs super ASCII non-graphical powers, so that if I'm
> modelling a bar chart, I can convert it to a column chart:

Indeed, picture-mode is lacking this functionality.
And so is artist-mode.

I have an excuse: I'm a types guy.

But about all you users?  What's your excuse?  What have you been doing
all these years instead of writing a rectangle-rotate function?


        Stefan




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