From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs insert empty string Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:18:37 +0100 Message-ID: References: <5908567d-3d1a-4f09-a4cb-e2c3ee9557be@k7g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <2dab985c-15ad-442e-ae53-dfc578cc7814@b22g2000prb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300965566 28043 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2011 11:19:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:19:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Kenneth Brun Nielsen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 24 12:19:22 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2iZV-0002Db-AQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:19:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44694 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2iZU-0003vh-O3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:19:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59196 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2iYr-0003uS-Eb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:18:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2iYq-0003Mt-73 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:18:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]:56631) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2iYp-0003Mn-SZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:18:40 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp04.web.de ( [172.20.0.225]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DD9718A6439C; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:18:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [91.35.225.110] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp04.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #2) id 1Q2iYo-0001cr-00; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:18:38 +0100 In-Reply-To: <2dab985c-15ad-442e-ae53-dfc578cc7814@b22g2000prb.googlegroups.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18TDaokpTOWM+BL7gqY4Iy3buLkGvKZn3VbEIwo ry+KhJFqeqJSXaYr6Z5OGN5uMIJctNOsTKaM2yNzetq32CkUY+ wmBbRLEHktNELBuEH84A== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 217.72.192.234 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:80386 Archived-At: Am 24.03.2011 um 11:25 schrieb Kenneth Brun Nielsen: > Now I "regret" outcommenting the commands 600-800. Again I select the > lines/columns of interest and use the 'CTRL-x rt' command and remove > the "*" column (i.e. replace the first column with an empty string) The documentation, in my interpretation and understanding, does not tell it would work. Because the rectangle functions *insert* and don't *overwrite* (maybe they would do when you activate overwrite-mode). And an empty inserted stays invisible otherwise it would not be an empty string but a (file and disk space) consuming string. Since decades (or such) I do something like this these modern days on the marked first column (i.e., mark in left-most column, point one column forward to the right, or vice-versa, or in numbers: 0 and 1): C-x r k > Does my explanation make sense? Yes. -- Greetings Pete To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up.