On his Emacs Rocks twitter feed, Magnor Sveen announced some useful additions to his multiple-cursors package. If you active regions with multiple-cursors you can now perform the following operations on them
- Reverse the lines in the regions
- Sort the regions
- Insert line numbers
He maps these to
| 【Ctrl+~】 | Reverse regions |
| 【Meta+~】 | Sort regions |
| 【Hyper+~】 | Insert numbers |
These additions bring to multiple-cursors functionality that exists in other Emacs packages such as CUA-rectangle-mode and thus makes it even more of a go to package for efficient text manipulation.
I’m still experimenting with it but so far I really like it. If you’re using the multiple-cursors package (and if you aren’t you really should be) you’ll get the new functions the next time you update but you’ll need to set key sequences for them. I like the ones that Sveen is using but, of course, you can choose your own.