Re: emacs24/gtk3 - how to mark rectangle of to primary selection?

[Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za>]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:24:12 +0200, Paul K <mafeuser@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hallo.
> 
> I tried to do it with cua-mode, but no luck.
> 
> Have You got any ideas?

You could do it step-wise:
Kill a rectangle. set-mark-command (c-SPC) at one corner, kill-rectangle (C-x
r k) at the opposite corner. Then undo (C-_) if you don't want the
text to be lost.

Then go to the scratch buffer and yank-rectangle (C-x r y). Then do
whatever you normally do to highlight with the mouse etc to get it
into the primary selection.

Cheers,
Jonathan
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