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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 08:52:15 -0400
> 
> > I recently discovered rectangle-mode -- maybe it does what you want.
> 
> Indeed, rectangle-mode has some code that does something related, but it
> only handles the part of *displaying* the cursor where there's no actual
> text, it doesn't try to let you then insert text at that position.

cua-rectangle-mark-mode does, AFAIR.