From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Whitfield Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to mark a rectangle Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:15:46 +0800 Message-ID: <443610d6$0$20584$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au> References: <1144337488.215408.25150@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> 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 1144395659 14988 80.91.229.2 (7 Apr 2006 07:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 07:40:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 07 09:40:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRlaJ-0000Ax-HC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:40:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRlaI-0003JH-VB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 03:40:46 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.waia.asn.au!203.59.27.186.MISMATCH!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!per-qv1-newsstorage1.iinet.net.au!per-qv1-newsstorage1.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:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Thunderbird/1.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.59.9.243 Original-X-Trace: 1144393942 per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au 20584 203.59.9.243 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:138593 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:34211 Archived-At: Heinz Tuechler wrote: > At 08:33 07.04.2006 +0200, raloupower@free.fr wrote: >> And you can use this to see what is possible : >> >> M-x apropos foo >> >> so, do : M-x apropos rectangle, and you'll get the list of the >> functions related with rectangle >> cua-mode (which comes with CVS emacs) includes a rectangle marking mode that does enable you to see the marked rectange. I find it easier to use than the standard emacs rectangle functions. YMMV. Paul