Vertical Blocks

Vertical Blocks

[Kouros Owzar]

Hi.

How does one go about marking, for the purpose
of copying, pasting or cutting, vertical blocks (regions)
in emacs?

To be more specific, how does one mark columns 5 to 7 within
rows 2 to 6?

How does one toggle back and forth from horizontal to vertical
block selection?

Sincerely,

Kouros

"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances
 with none." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural Address, 1801.

The Declaration of Independence:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/charters_of_freedom/declaration/declaration_transcription.html

Re: Vertical Blocks

[John McCabe]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:36:22 -0400, Kouros Owzar <owzar@email.unc.edu>
wrote:

>Hi.
>
>How does one go about marking, for the purpose
>of copying, pasting or cutting, vertical blocks (regions)
>in emacs?
>
>To be more specific, how does one mark columns 5 to 7 within
>rows 2 to 6?
>
>How does one toggle back and forth from horizontal to vertical
>block selection?

I'm sure I'll be corrected if this has been updated, but Emacs
(assuming you're using something like transient-mark-mode for Active
Region Highlighting!) doesn't differentiate between 'column' and 'row'
mode in marking. If you start a selection at column 5 on one row, then
end the selection on column 7 in another row, the using the rectangle
commands (e.g. C-x r k, C-x r y etc) will work on things between
column 5 and column 7 in the marked region.

Hope this helps.


Best Regards
John McCabe

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Re: Vertical Blocks

[Kai Großjohann]

Kouros Owzar <owzar@email.unc.edu> writes:

> How does one go about marking, for the purpose
> of copying, pasting or cutting, vertical blocks (regions)
> in emacs?

They are called rectangles in Emacs.  This ought to help you find the
right spot in the manual.
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Re: Vertical Blocks

[Jeffery B. Rancier]

Kouros Owzar <owzar@email.unc.edu> writes:

Maybe some of these commands will help.

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| Global Bindings Starting With C-x r:
| key             binding
| ---             -------
| 
| C-x r l		bookmark-bmenu-list
| C-x r m		bookmark-set
| C-x r b		bookmark-jump
| C-x r f		frame-configuration-to-register
| C-x r w		window-configuration-to-register
| C-x r t		string-rectangle
| C-x r o		open-rectangle
| C-x r y		yank-rectangle
| C-x r d		delete-rectangle
| C-x r k		kill-rectangle
| C-x r c		clear-rectangle
| C-x r +		increment-register
| C-x r n		number-to-register
| C-x r r		copy-rectangle-to-register
| C-x r g		insert-register
| C-x r i		insert-register
| C-x r x		copy-to-register
| C-x r s		copy-to-register
| C-x r j		jump-to-register
| C-x r SPC	point-to-register
| C-x r C-SPC	point-to-register
| C-x r C-@	point-to-register
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> Hi.
>
> How does one go about marking, for the purpose
> of copying, pasting or cutting, vertical blocks (regions)
> in emacs?
>
> To be more specific, how does one mark columns 5 to 7 within
> rows 2 to 6?
>
> How does one toggle back and forth from horizontal to vertical
> block selection?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Kouros
>
> "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances
>  with none." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural Address, 1801.
>
> The Declaration of Independence:
> http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/charters_of_freedom/declaration/declaration_transcription.html

-- 
Thanks,
Jeff
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| Jeffery B. Rancier
| 
| Softechnics
| a METTLER TOLEDO company
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