From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: mickbert@posteo.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do we copy rectangular selected region Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 10:40:16 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="100936"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Posteo Webmail To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 10 10:40:42 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hP156-000Q8i-Nk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 May 2019 10:40:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39061 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hP155-0004I4-LN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 May 2019 04:40:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33006) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hP14o-0004Gg-Im for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 May 2019 04:40:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hP14n-00029Y-FR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 May 2019 04:40:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:57854) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hP14m-00022O-E0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 May 2019 04:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 953EB16005F for ; Fri, 10 May 2019 10:40:17 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1557477617; bh=jzJMung2GruLPm6SUpkKCiVPEXz/Jy4IE0R/RFXfR8Y=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:From; b=Fh1wLTasoSAGeLftGarNd3dLGpSqBAf5CAvHh5X1kZb1Gi8XkliWCqfoi/ss4+Srk 8yXMdAbmmrHd3I7VSQiEcqblQnZLXONgYp/sQdCAJAcpBBM3ZtdfBk4r1EyFbkjZ2d gCQlbkyKCHOtPIjBiREnY/wsGaEg2yW5y4KJfTdhF/cGn3L0GE0T23prhJXgpAfq9X BSwDK1iCGo7zpnu0h5iP21CQsKj1KBHRAwnALDvkawx0MQ9pzKSpmOAOP85wYTLoG1 aJXoWtX40kx7hYufkIe6PxBClH8V5/2LyiY49Lj+4npwjPB5XYmCNV+jOwkdwH7Me7 oiaT+B++VCfHQ== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 450kDc738Kz6tm5 for ; Fri, 10 May 2019 10:40:16 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: X-Sender: mickbert@posteo.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 185.67.36.65 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120283 Archived-At: 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