Re: Highlighting rectangles?

[Alex Schroeder]

address@hidden (Pavel Janík) writes:

> Sometimes, I use an editor joe which has two modes for blocks - text stream
> mode and rectangle mode. User can mark "region" which is then highlighted
> and then choose rectangle mode and the rectangle is highlighted. How to do
> that in Emacs?

Such a thing already exists as an external package.

;;; rect-mark.el --- Mark a rectangle of text with highlighting.

;;; Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 Rick Sladkey <address@hidden>


I'm not sure about the latest cua.el by Kim Storm.

Alex.