add an empty line at the begin of a rectangle

add an empty line at the begin of a rectangle

[Rainer Stengele]

Hi,

I believe a simple question but I cannot find a solution:

I want to add an empty line at the begin of a rectangle and thus shift the while rest of only that column in the buffer down by 1 row.
Example:

Having:

AAAA 0000
BBBB 1111
CCCC 2222
      3333

I want to get:

      0000
AAAA 1111
BBBB 2222
CCCC 3333

Thank you.
Regards, Rainer

Re: add an empty line at the begin of a rectangle

[Kaushal Modi]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 1:00 PM Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I believe a simple question but I cannot find a solution:
>
> I want to add an empty line at the begin of a rectangle and thus shift the
> while rest of only that column in the buffer down by 1 row.
> Example:
>
> Having:
>
> AAAA 0000
> BBBB 1111
> CCCC 2222
>       3333
>
> I want to get:
>
>       0000
> AAAA 1111
> BBBB 2222
> CCCC 3333
>

I believe you simply

1. Select the rectangle:
AAAA
BBBB
CCCC
2. Cut the rectangle: C-x r k
3. Move point to the starting of the line containing "1111".
4. Paste the rectangle back: C-x r y



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Kaushal Modi