From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Quick insert of characters into a column? Date: 24 Jun 2009 03:10:18 GMT Message-ID: References: <7e588b3f-b88f-4ca5-abb9-f43c9348792c@c19g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245814873 8479 80.91.229.12 (24 Jun 2009 03:41:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:41:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 24 05:41:06 2009 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 4.50) id 1MJJMA-0006Ne-Ez for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:41:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47053 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJJM9-0006T7-RS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:41:05 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Trace: individual.net zY/If6+XrFAxZjJoYtOvCgebSG+B6kZSoGyo+q+LNVOeaOK0yh Cancel-Lock: sha1:QYIIKRvOXvzaPXEFXX6gdQApQu0= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9 (Linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170249 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:65465 Archived-At: Chad wrote: > I'm using emacs to edit a latex file to create a table with many rows, > say 20. I need to insert & to separate the columns, so I need a > column of 20 ampersands. > > What is the quickest way to do this? I'd like to highlight a region > (column) and then tell emacs to insert the ampersand into that region, > but I can't figure out how to do this. M-x string-insert-rectangle -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)