From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Holger Sparr Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: No copy-rectangle-as-kill? Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:47:40 +0200 Organization: Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117644832 20568 80.91.229.2 (1 Jun 2005 16:53:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:53:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 01 18:53:44 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdWR3-0007Wm-Ag for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:51:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdWWN-0008Bw-C6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:56:47 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: news.dfncis.de FTrZp6tVk9UXwk8l2glxLwbsx1Dg+vmNeYo7/wdRKHc0Zc Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+at0tgrY2Gy65It6oIOTArYJg88= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131685 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:27145 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27145 On Wed, 01 Jun 2005, susudata@setidava.kushan.aa wrote: > Am I overlooking something, or is there no command in Emacs to copy a > rectangle into the last killed rectangle "special place" without also > removing it from the current buffer? I gotta tell y'all, XEmacs has > better rectangle support than Emacs. ;) There is also rect-mark.el . The commentary section tells: ;; You can also kill or copy rectangles onto the kill ring which is ;; convenient for yanking rectangles into ordinary buffers (i.e. ones ;; not in picture mode) and for pasting rectangles into other window ;; system programs (e.g. xterm). These keys are by default bound to ;; `C-x r C-w' and `C-x r M-w' by analogy to the normal kill and copy ;; counterparts. --