From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: add an empty line at the begin of a rectangle
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 18:36:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY2Vxfz6BJ86kDaUVHjTOjX-kYhFg5wm-SdBPU66Bxsz5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p0jsmd$gp9$1@blaine.gmane.org>
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 1:00 PM Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I believe a simple question but I cannot find a solution:
>
> I want to add an empty line at the begin of a rectangle and thus shift the
> while rest of only that column in the buffer down by 1 row.
> Example:
>
> Having:
>
> AAAA 0000
> BBBB 1111
> CCCC 2222
> 3333
>
> I want to get:
>
> 0000
> AAAA 1111
> BBBB 2222
> CCCC 3333
>
I believe you simply
1. Select the rectangle:
AAAA
BBBB
CCCC
2. Cut the rectangle: C-x r k
3. Move point to the starting of the line containing "1111".
4. Paste the rectangle back: C-x r y
--
Kaushal Modi
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2017-12-10 17:59 add an empty line at the begin of a rectangle Rainer Stengele
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