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Re: How to do rectangular cut(visual block) in emacs
From: |
Francis Moreau |
Subject: |
Re: How to do rectangular cut(visual block) in emacs |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:32:59 -0700 (PDT) |
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G2/1.0 |
Hello,
On Mar 24, 8:59 am, Tim X <t...@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
> Move point to the top left corner and set the mark
> Move point to the bottom right hand corner
> Hit C-x r r <reg> where <reg> is a register. This will copy the
> rectangle defined by the region into register <reg>
>
> Later, when you want to get that rectangle of text back, just hit C-x r
> i <reg> and the contents of <reg> will be pasted into the buffer where
> point is.
>
Now let say's I have the following text:
a/ this is a line
b/ this is a very long line
c/ a short one
and I want to copy the rectangle of this text without the a/ b/ c/
How do I move to the bottom right corner without adding space to the
last
line ?
thanks