Re: emacs24/gtk3 - how to mark rectangle of to primary selection?

[Xah Lee]

On Jun 26, 1:33 pm, Paul K <mafeu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Peter and Jonathan,
> thank You for Your answer.
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> These solutions seem to be a bit compicated,
> so how about sending marked/selected rectangle to clipboard selection
> with or without cua-mode?
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> best regards,
> Paul
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> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Jonathan Groll <li...@groll.co.za> wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:24:12 +0200, Paul K <mafeu...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> Hallo.
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> >> I tried to do it with cua-mode, but no luck.
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> >> Have You got any ideas?
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> > You could do it step-wise:
> > Kill a rectangle. set-mark-command (c-SPC) at one corner, kill-rectangle 
> > (C-x
> > r k) at the opposite corner. Then undo (C-_) if you don't want the
> > text to be lost.
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> > Then go to the scratch buffer and yank-rectangle (C-x r y). Then do
> > whatever you normally do to highlight with the mouse etc to get it
> > into the primary selection.
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> > Cheers,
> > Jonathan
> > --
> > jjg: Jonathan J. Groll : groll co za
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it's not difficult to write a elisp command to do this.

basically, the command use kill-rectangle to trim a text into a column
you want, then put it on clipboard. Probably a 15 min job...

you can make do with a key macro instead. It should work.

 Xah