Re: [PATCH] customizing initial sequence number in cua-rectangle

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Daniel Fleischer <danflscr@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 08:32:09 +0200
> 
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> > What's the use case for that?  (cua-sequence-rectangle isn't a command
> > I've used before.)
> 
> I'm using CUA rectangle mode a lot, mainly for fixing indentation and to
> insert sequence of numbers for converting texts into numbered lists in
> orgmode. The default initial number is 0 and you can input 1.
> 
> But then you do it a bunch of times and wonder why is it not
> customizable. For example there is a format variable for the sequence
> "%d" and it has a history mechanism so if you change it, it's ready for
> the next time in a given session.

Would it make sense to allow specifying the initial value via the
prefix arg?