How to do rectangular cut(visual block) in emacs

How to do rectangular cut(visual block) in emacs

[Anand Dhanakshirur]

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Re: How to do rectangular cut(visual block) in emacs

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2008/12/working-with-rectangular-selections.html 

might be helpful.

Best wishes,
Dirk.

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Re: How to do rectangular cut(visual block) in emacs

[Tim X]

Move point to the top left corner and set the mark
Move point to the bottom right hand corner 
Hit C-x r r <reg> where <reg> is a register. This will copy the
rectangle defined by the region into register <reg> 

Later, when you want to get that rectangle of text back, just hit C-x r
i <reg> and the contents of <reg> will be pasted into the buffer where
point is.

HTH

Tim

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Re: How to do rectangular cut(visual block) in emacs

[Francis Moreau]

Hello,

On Mar 24, 8:59 am, Tim X <t...@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
> Move point to the top left corner and set the mark
> Move point to the bottom right hand corner
> Hit C-x r r <reg> where <reg> is a register. This will copy the
> rectangle defined by the region into register <reg>
>
> Later, when you want to get that rectangle of text back, just hit C-x r
> i <reg> and the contents of <reg> will be pasted into the buffer where
> point is.
>

Now let say's I have the following text:

a/ this is a line
b/ this is a very long line
c/ a short one

and I want to copy the rectangle of this text without the a/ b/ c/

How do I move to the bottom right corner without adding space to the
last
line ?

thanks

Re: How to do rectangular cut(visual block) in emacs

[Rupert Swarbrick]

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Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:
> Now let say's I have the following text:
>
> a/ this is a line
> b/ this is a very long line
> c/ a short one
>
> and I want to copy the rectangle of this text without the a/ b/ c/
>
> How do I move to the bottom right corner without adding space to the
> last
> line ?

My personal solution? Use a normal M-w to plonk the whole list onto the
kill-ring, C-x C-b to a temporary buffer (I tend to use C-x C-b b RET),
yank the lot, use C-x r k to kill the starts of the lines and then C-w
the result and yank it to wherever it's needed.

There are probably swankier ways of doing it, but variants on this trick
solve all sorts of weird and wonderful layouts of stuff you want to
mangle.

Another solution would be C-M-% [a-z]/ RET RET of course.

Rupert

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Re: How to do rectangular cut(visual block) in emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 24.03.2009 um 13:32 schrieb Francis Moreau:

> How do I move to the bottom right corner without adding space to the
> last
> line ?


Two steps, two registers: one with lines #1 + #2, the other line #3.  
Or vice-versa. Or you transpose line #1 and #2 or #2 and #3.

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Re: How to do rectangular cut(visual block) in emacs

[Francis Moreau]

On Mar 24, 1:52 pm, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> Am 24.03.2009 um 13:32 schrieb Francis Moreau:
>
> > How do I move to the bottom right corner without adding space to the
> > last
> > line ?
>
> Two steps, two registers: one with lines #1 + #2, the other line #3.  
> Or vice-versa. Or you transpose line #1 and #2 or #2 and #3.
>

Another possibility would be to switch to a special mode (like picture-
mode) that would allow to move freely into a buffer and select and
copy the rectangle in this mode. The copy would dismiss any trailing
spaces.

Re: How to do rectangular cut(visual block) in emacs

[poppyer]

Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

: On Mar 24, 1:52pm, Peter Dyballa <PeterDyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
:> Am 24.03.2009 um 13:32 schrieb Francis Moreau:
:>
:> > How do I move to the bottom right corner without adding space to the
:> > last
:> > line ?
:>
:> Two steps, two registers: one with lines #1 + #2, the other line #3. 
:> Or vice-versa. Or you transpose line #1 and #2 or #2 and #3.
:>
:
: Another possibility would be to switch to a special mode (like picture-
: mode) that would allow to move freely into a buffer and select and
: copy the rectangle in this mode. The copy would dismiss any trailing
: spaces.

If you are using emacs 23, M-x cua-set-rectangle-mark (default binding
C-RET) will be your friend.

Re: How to do rectangular cut(visual block) in emacs

[Tim X]

Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On Mar 24, 8:59 am, Tim X <t...@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
>> Move point to the top left corner and set the mark
>> Move point to the bottom right hand corner
>> Hit C-x r r <reg> where <reg> is a register. This will copy the
>> rectangle defined by the region into register <reg>
>>
>> Later, when you want to get that rectangle of text back, just hit C-x r
>> i <reg> and the contents of <reg> will be pasted into the buffer where
>> point is.
>>
>
> Now let say's I have the following text:
>
> a/ this is a line
> b/ this is a very long line
> c/ a short one
>
> and I want to copy the rectangle of this text without the a/ b/ c/
>
> How do I move to the bottom right corner without adding space to the
> last
> line ?
>

You can't. You have to make it a rectangle. However, you can remove the
extra spaces afterwards. 

Tim

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