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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 06:28:09 -0700 (PDT)
User-agent: G2/1.0

On Mar 24, 1:52 pm, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> Am 24.03.2009 um 13:32 schrieb Francis Moreau:
>
> > How do I move to the bottom right corner without adding space to the
> > last
> > line ?
>
> Two steps, two registers: one with lines #1 + #2, the other line #3.  
> Or vice-versa. Or you transpose line #1 and #2 or #2 and #3.
>

Another possibility would be to switch to a special mode (like picture-
mode) that would allow to move freely into a buffer and select and
copy the rectangle in this mode. The copy would dismiss any trailing
spaces.


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