From: YUE Daian <sheepduke@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do we copy rectangular selected region
Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 17:08:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tve265iy.fsf@work.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9adedb13c6f06c8d6d7c514d3610b97@posteo.net>
On 2019-05-10 10:40, mickbert@posteo.net wrote:
> On 05.05.2019 09:21, Budi wrote:
>> How can we copy rectangular selected region on latest emacs
>> we paste it as line region instead
>> how do such by script elisp.. thanks in advance
>
> I use a temporary buffer, (like "*scratch*", but anything else is the
> same):
> - select rectangle and copy it: M-x copy-rectangle-as-kill
> - yank rectangle in in temporary buffer: C-x r y
> - select what has just been yanked: C-x C-x
> - move it in the kill-ring: C-w
> - go to destination buffer and yank: C-y
>
> I didn't know the command copy-rectangle-as-kill before; I used to kill
> the rectangle then re-yank, or undo, every time!
> --
> Mick
Emacs also provides a mode to select rectangle in a more user-friendly
way, named `rectangle-mark-mode`.
It is bound to `C-x SPC` by default.
It *only* selects a rectangle so you may copy/yank using trivial `M-w`.
Hope it helps.
Danny
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-05 7:21 How do we copy rectangular selected region Budi
2019-05-05 13:22 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-05-06 10:50 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-05-07 6:27 ` Budi
2019-05-10 8:40 ` mickbert
2019-05-10 9:08 ` YUE Daian [this message]
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