Thanks John,

I tried out that snippet. It works great, and as advertised. I think will
be a useful function.

Here are few notes I have on this:
- The functions need docstrings
- It will also be useful to document them in the manual ( (emacs)
Rectangles )
- I first wondered why you named it edit-rectangle instead of
rectangle-edit. But then I realized that all rectangle commands are named
that way: kill-rectangle, clear-rectangle, etc.. So that's why?

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 1:08 PM John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is functionality I'd like to add to rect.el. It allows you to specify
> a
> rectangular region, and then edit just the contents of that rectangle in a
> separate buffer. When finished (C-c C-c), it replaces the old rectangle
> using
> insert-rectangle with the new contents.
>
> I'd appreciate comments on usability, fitness, etc.
>
> --

Kaushal Modi