From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Quokka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: block based selection Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:41:24 +0800 Message-ID: <4263021e$0$414$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113785176 11494 80.91.229.2 (18 Apr 2005 00:46:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:46:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 18 02:46:14 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNKOx-0002TK-Nr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 02:46:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNKSw-0000PO-IV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:50:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.mel.connect.com.au!news-north.connect.com.au!news-south.connect.com.au!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041206 Thunderbird/1.0 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.59.9.243 Original-X-Trace: 1113784862 per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au 414 203.59.9.243 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:130196 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25763 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25763 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