From: Quokka <NoSpam@iinet.net.au>
Subject: Re: block based selection
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:41:24 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4263021e$0$414$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1646.1113577345.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Neon Absentius wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 04:04:55PM +0200, Uwe Mayer wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>how do you change the way emacs selects regions of text? Currently it works
>>line based, but I need to select a rectangular region from within a text.
>>Can anyone help me with how to change the selection mode?
>
If you use cua mode it has a rectange editing mode.
In cvs emacs this is in cua-rect.el.
I find it easier to use than the "standard" rectange functions.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-18 0:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-15 14:04 block based selection Uwe Mayer
2005-04-15 14:16 ` Albert Reiner
2005-04-15 14:37 ` Neon Absentius
2005-04-15 14:49 ` EScott
[not found] ` <mailman.1646.1113577345.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-18 0:41 ` Quokka [this message]
2005-04-19 15:25 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-04-29 2:07 ` Alan Wehmann
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