From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: copy-rectangle-to-kill-ring Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:38:42 -0700 Message-ID: References: <459D4A35.3060403@zksw.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168418360 22277 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2007 08:39:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:39:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 10 09:39:17 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H4YzH-0005mr-JI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:39:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4YzH-0007yJ-8F for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:39:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4YzE-0007xt-HD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:39:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4YzC-0007xc-2C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:39:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4YzB-0007xT-Rn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:39:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H4YzB-000154-F2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:39:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H4Yz0-0002G9-Fb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:38:54 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.156.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:38:54 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:38:54 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) In-Reply-To: <459D4A35.3060403@zksw.de> X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15517 Archived-At: Wilmar Igl wrote: > sorry, I don't want to be a nuisance. However, I'd like to suggest to > include a function to copy a rectangle into the kill ring which is not > available at the moment (only copy-rectangle-to-register). Do you mean "copy a rectangle so that `C-x r y' can insert it"? Or do you mean "copy a rectangle so that `C-y' can insert it"? If the former, this should do the job: (defun copy-rectangle-as-kill (beg end) "Copy rectangular region into `killed-rectangle', but don't delete it. The rectangle can then be yanked via \\[yank-rectangle]." (interactive "r") (setq killed-rectangle (extract-rectangle beg end))) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA