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From: | Knut Forkalsrud |
Subject: | Re: kill-rectangle, yank-rectangle and copy-rectangle |
Date: | Tue, 28 Aug 2001 22:33:43 GMT |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.91 |
jsykari@cc.hut.fi (Antti Sykäri) writes: > Now you would have to do the following in order to copy a rectangular > region: > > <Select a region> > C-x r k ; kill the region > <Go to upper left corner of the place where the region was> > C-x r y ; copy the region back I find it easier to kill the region and then do an immediate undo. This way the buffer is not marked as modified. But yes, a real "copy-rectangle" function would be better. > I also am of the humble opinion that the keyboard commands for those two > were set somewhat non-sensibly. I agree. > C-x r M-w copy-rectangle > C-x r C-y yank-rectangle > C-x r C-w kill-rectangle This looks nice. -Knut -- Hard work often pays off after time. But laziness always pays off now.
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