Re: Quick insert of characters into a column?

[Joost Kremers]

Chad wrote:
> I'm using emacs to edit a latex file to create a table with many rows,
> say 20.  I need to insert & to separate the columns, so I need a
> column of 20 ampersands.
>
> What is the quickest way to do this?  I'd like to highlight a region
> (column) and then tell emacs to insert the ampersand into that region,
> but I can't figure out how to do this.

M-x string-insert-rectangle


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