From: EScott@nyiso.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, help-gnu-emacs-bounces+escott=nyiso.com@gnu.org
Subject: Re: block based selection
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 10:49:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <OF28D8F5F8.2D4E03B7-ON85256FE4.00510C0A-85256FE4.005179B6@nyiso.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d3ohm7$2rn$1@news2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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help-gnu-emacs-bounces+escott=nyiso.com@gnu.org wrote on 04/15/2005
10:04:55 AM:
> Hi,
>
> how do you change the way emacs selects regions of text? Currently it
works
> line based, but I need to select a rectangular region from within a
text.
> Can anyone help me with how to change the selection mode?
>
> Thanks
> Uwe
What you are looking for is rectangle editing.
Define a rectangle in the usual way (mark upper left corner, then move to
bottom right plus one).
Then use the commands
kill-rectangle
delete-rectangle
yank-rectangle
clear-rectangle
open-rectangle
HTH
EricS
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-15 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-15 14:04 block based selection Uwe Mayer
2005-04-15 14:16 ` Albert Reiner
2005-04-15 14:37 ` Neon Absentius
2005-04-15 14:49 ` EScott [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.1646.1113577345.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-18 0:41 ` Quokka
2005-04-19 15:25 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-04-29 2:07 ` Alan Wehmann
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