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From: Chad <chad.jones@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Quick insert of characters into a column?
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:38:45 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e588b3f-b88f-4ca5-abb9-f43c9348792c@c19g2000prh.googlegroups.com> (raw)

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


             reply	other threads:[~2009-06-23 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-23 23:38 Chad [this message]
2009-06-24  3:10 ` Quick insert of characters into a column? Joost Kremers
2009-06-24  6:55 ` harven
2009-06-24 16:46   ` Chad
2009-06-30 17:57 ` Ken Goldman

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