From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: block based selection Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:25:35 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113924419 29601 80.91.229.2 (19 Apr 2005 15:26:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:26:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 19 17:26:58 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNubt-0007OZ-5h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:25:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNugD-0006XQ-Qy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:30:25 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Trace: individual.net qSpznRsulIRz/67GfeG5vw2iOGAfQmhq8d8NiGTULQuiyD7def User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2fn8MxBv2w/oCpzYSBDqh5kjr24= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:130253 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:25821 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25821 Neon Absentius writes: > > Technically speaking, Emacs doesn't really select a region, it just > remembers two positions, point and mark, on the buffer. There are > commands that operate on the whole region between point and mark, such > as the usual kill, yank etc, but also there are command that operate > on the rectangle defined by the point and mark. Such commands usually > start with C-r, for example > > C-r C-k kill rectangle > C-r C-y yank rectangle They start with C-x r, not C-r /Mathias