Re: buffer-substring-rectangle

[Nikos Apostolakis]

alruccaba@justmail.de writes:

> Hi everyone 
>
> I am searching for an analogous command to (buffer-substring start
> end) delivering a string - doing the (buffer-substring-rectangular
> start end) staff. Thank you for every idea or selfwritten defun!
>

Does this help?

,----[ C-h f extract-rectangle RET ]
| extract-rectangle is a compiled Lisp function in `rect.el'.
| (extract-rectangle START END)
| 
| Return the contents of the rectangle with corners at START and END.
| Return it as a list of strings, one for each line of the rectangle.
| 
| [back]
`----

Nikos