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Re: No copy-rectangle-as-kill?
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Chris F.A. Johnson |
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Re: No copy-rectangle-as-kill? |
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Wed, 1 Jun 2005 06:58:06 -0400 |
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On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 at 09:50 GMT, Hattuari wrote:
> Am I overlooking something, or is there no command in Emacs to copy a
> rectangle into the last killed rectangle "special place" without also
> removing it from the current buffer? I gotta tell y'all, XEmacs has better
> rectangle support than Emacs. ;)
(defun copy-rectangle-as-kill ()
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(kill-rectangle (mark) (point))
(exchange-point-and-mark)
(yank-rectangle)))
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