Function: mc/vertical-align

mc/vertical-align is an interactive and natively compiled function defined in mc-separate-operations.el.

Signature

(mc/vertical-align CHARACTER)

Documentation

Aligns all cursors vertically with a given CHARACTER to the one with the highest column number (the rightest). Might not behave as intended if more than one cursors are on the same line.

Key Bindings

This command is not in any keymaps.

Source Code

;; Defined in /nix/store/5q7a78ihkz25lf4xmxaa9m7b2ym63m36-emacs-packages-deps/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/multiple-cursors-20260419.931/mc-separate-operations.el
;;;###autoload
(defun mc/vertical-align (character)
  "Aligns all cursors vertically with a given CHARACTER to the one with the
highest column number (the rightest).
Might not behave as intended if more than one cursors are on the same line."
  (interactive "c")
  (let ((rightest-column (current-column)))
    (mc/execute-command-for-all-cursors
     (lambda () "get the rightest cursor"
       (interactive)
       (setq rightest-column (max (current-column) rightest-column))
       ))
    (mc/execute-command-for-all-cursors
     (lambda ()
       (interactive)
       (let ((missing-spaces (- rightest-column (current-column))))
         (save-excursion (insert (make-string missing-spaces character)))
         (forward-char missing-spaces))))))