From: Ken Goldman <kgold@watson.ibm.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Quick insert of characters into a column?
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:57:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a4b9c02$1@news.greennet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7e588b3f-b88f-4ca5-abb9-f43c9348792c@c19g2000prh.googlegroups.com>
Search the docs for 'rectangle'
Specifically
C-x r t runs the command string-rectangle
which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `rect'.
(string-rectangle START END STRING)
Replace rectangle contents with STRING on each line.
The length of STRING need not be the same as the rectangle width.
Chad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using emacs to edit a latex file to create a table with many rows,
> say 20. I need to insert & to separate the columns, so I need a
> column of 20 ampersands.
>
> What is the quickest way to do this? I'd like to highlight a region
> (column) and then tell emacs to insert the ampersand into that region,
> but I can't figure out how to do this.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Chad
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-30 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-23 23:38 Quick insert of characters into a column? Chad
2009-06-24 3:10 ` Joost Kremers
2009-06-24 6:55 ` harven
2009-06-24 16:46 ` Chad
2009-06-30 17:57 ` Ken Goldman [this message]
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