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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: TIL about string-rectangle
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 15:23:46 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bfcb8b55-8117-4178-9f6a-76c05437e4bd@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <baf0e97d-350b-4e75-ba61-5c89ea764bdd@default>

> Are you sure?  After you activate the (rectangular)
> region, you may need to use `C-x C-x', so point is
> before mark, because query-replacing moves forward
> from point.
> 
> Works for me, with `emacs -Q' (no init file).

Actually, it works without `C-x C-x', even if point
is after mark.

You need Emacs 25 or later for it to work.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-30 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-30 20:59 TIL about string-rectangle Skip Montanaro
2020-12-30 21:37 ` Tim Landscheidt
2020-12-30 22:11   ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31  8:03     ` Yuri Khan
2020-12-31 10:21       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-31 12:44       ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 14:32     ` Tim Landscheidt
2020-12-30 21:43 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 22:08   ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-30 23:11     ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 23:23       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-12-30 23:24       ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31  7:15         ` Sivaram Neelakantan

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