From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to mark a rectangle Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:22:15 +0200 Organization: StormWare Message-ID: References: <1144337488.215408.25150@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144405520 14012 80.91.229.2 (7 Apr 2006 10:25:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:25:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 07 12:25:18 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRo9U-0005wQ-2c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:25:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRo9T-0005xG-HB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:25:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FRo9K-0005x2-Cp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:25:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FRo9J-0005wk-Fs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:25:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRo9J-0005wf-CN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:25:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FRoDF-0004Ia-Nv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:29:09 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FRo9G-0005uH-Ix for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:25:02 +0200 Original-Received: from mail.intermate.dk ([213.83.150.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:25:02 +0200 Original-Received: from no-spam by mail.intermate.dk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:25:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.intermate.dk User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:o1W2GAIbFiSk8N4nFWe7Axdn4JM= 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:34217 Archived-At: "billy" writes: > I have searched this news groups and searched the manual pages. I can > find nothing, probebly overlooking, as to how to mark a rectangle. I > find plenty of stuff to deal with it, but not how to get it. I suppose you mean "mark a visible rectangle", so you can actually see the rectangle on the screen. CUA-mode can do that. Option 1: Get CUA-mode from the link below. Install and enable it. Then use S-return to mark a (visible) rectangle. Option 2: Get the "soon-to-be-released" emacs 22.x from savannah.gnu.org. It has cua-mode (a successor to CUA-mode) built in. Enable cua-mode (from the Options menu). Then use C-return to mark rectangles. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk