Re: Shifting a column left or right using key

["B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@peoplepc.com>]

"Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote in message
news:mailman.435.1145090737.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
>
> Am 15.04.2006 um 01:08 schrieb Abbott, Kevin-p98710:
>
> > One nice option that PE had was that one could mark a rectangle in
> > front of a column of text or data and use the ctrl --> or ctrl <--
> > to shift the column/ text left or right
>
> C-x r o or C-x r t shift to the right, the latter by inserting a text
> you specify.
> C-x r k kills a rectangle that the remainder is left shifted.
>
> C-h d rectangle RET mentions some more.
>

It might be useful to the rest of us tyros to see something like this in
these cases:

>(In v22 or cvs) C-h d rectangle RET mentions some more.

In half of the things I try (after reading about them here) I find that
they are just roundabout ways of running the ding function. If I knew only
as much as I did six months ago this would have been a complete mystery to
me. Now that I have 22.0.50, I can quickly run that too and retry the the
example in that version. With the version note included, those without the
cvs loaded in their systems would not have bothered to try the exampe.
(More efficient, no?)

Ed