From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Quick insert of characters into a column? Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:38:45 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <7e588b3f-b88f-4ca5-abb9-f43c9348792c@c19g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245819092 15915 80.91.229.12 (24 Jun 2009 04:51:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:51:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 24 06:51:23 2009 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 1MJKSB-0006d8-Fe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:51:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42207 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJKSA-0008Ey-Mf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:51:22 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!c19g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.209.99.224 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1245800326 6460 127.0.0.1 (23 Jun 2009 23:38:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:38:46 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c19g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.209.99.224; posting-account=MTqzIQoAAAAyU92P1aU-Nph1SoT2_wCw User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060310 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.11, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170247 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:46:50 -0400 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:65470 Hi, I'm using emacs to edit a latex file to create a table with many rows, say 20. I need to insert & to separate the columns, so I need a column of 20 ampersands. What is the quickest way to do this? I'd like to highlight a region (column) and then tell emacs to insert the ampersand into that region, but I can't figure out how to do this. Thanks for your help! Chad