From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "roodwriter@core.com" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to copy rectangles Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:37:54 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3f85cbb5$1@news.seqnet.net> Reply-To: roodwriter@core.com NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065898209 28998 80.91.224.253 (11 Oct 2003 18:50:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 18:50:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 11 20:50:06 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A8OoY-0006LA-00 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:50:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A8Okt-0000jB-4t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:46:19 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 37 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117213 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13141 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13141 Siegfried Heintze wrote: > There is a nice yank-rectangle command -- I really like it. > > My problem is that there is only a kill-rectangle command. Why is there no > kill-rectangle-save command? I need it! > > I can copy a rectangle to a register with copy-rectangle command, but how > do I extract it from the register? There is no insert-rectangle command. I > guess insert-register works. Well anyway, does anyone have a > kill-rectangle-save command I could have? Was it omitted intentionally? > > Thanks for the good work you guys! > Sieg I was just looking at the date on your posting. I wasn't planning to answer it because I don't know of one. But the thought occurred to me that maybe that's the reason no one else has answered. Just a thought: Would it be easier for you to make a macro with a different keybinding to insert the rectangle to and from your register? Would that simplify things? I did something similar with query-replace. It's easier for me to type C-c q than M-%. Sometimes there are better shortcuts. For what it's worth. --Rod -- Author of "Linux for Non-Geeks--Clear-eyed Answered for Practical Consumers" and "Boring Stories from Uncle Rod." Both are available at http://www.rodwriterpublishing.com/index.html To reply by e-mail, take the extra "o" out of the name.