From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: TIL about string-rectangle
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:08:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANc-5Uw+xqjCuHCmBrhPaETwuD73h3+1D660Bwywb0AaV-roiA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <448d5e17-910f-4d32-b99c-96410c8e802e@default>
> You can also use the usual replacement commands
> in a rectangular region. `C-x SPC' to establish
> the region, then `C-M-%' or whatever, to search
> and replace only with that rectangular region.
Hmmm... That doesn't work for me. I've used rectangles a lot over the
years and have never seen query-replace and friends be constrained by
the currently defined rectangle. I must be missing something.
Skip
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-30 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-30 20:59 TIL about string-rectangle Skip Montanaro
2020-12-30 21:37 ` Tim Landscheidt
2020-12-30 22:11 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 8:03 ` Yuri Khan
2020-12-31 10:21 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-31 12:44 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 14:32 ` Tim Landscheidt
2020-12-30 21:43 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 22:08 ` Skip Montanaro [this message]
2020-12-30 23:11 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 23:23 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 23:24 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 7:15 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
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