From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Allan Gottlieb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cua-mode makes active region disappear in transient-mark-mode Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:25:20 -0500 Message-ID: References: <871vx1o4sh.fsf@iki.fi> <7e703639-ea41-4d64-b73c-e0f93e415d89@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227551635 27103 80.91.229.12 (24 Nov 2008 18:33:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:33:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 24 19:34:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L4gGt-0002je-Km for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:34:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60801 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L4gFk-000725-9D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:33:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L4eFd-00054S-3s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:25:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L4eFb-000536-Cl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:25:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54195 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L4eFb-00052i-3c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:25:27 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu ([128.122.80.33]:43017) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4eFa-0005td-SO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:25:26 -0500 Original-Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4578d376.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.211.118]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mAOGPP65018770 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:25:25 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 3C04919D921; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:25:20 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <7e703639-ea41-4d64-b73c-e0f93e415d89@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com> (Xah Lee's message of "Mon\, 24 Nov 2008 05\:16\:02 -0800 \(PST\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:60062 Archived-At: At Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:16:02 -0800 (PST) Xah Lee wrote: > Cua mode does support copying/pasting a column of text right? > > is it possible to do this with rectangle* commands? Sure. kill-rectangle followed by yank rectangle will do a move. So kill followed by 2 yanks will copy. Or you can use copy-rectangle-to-register followed by insert-register. allan