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Re: add an empty line at the begin of a rectangle
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Kaushal Modi |
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Re: add an empty line at the begin of a rectangle |
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Sun, 10 Dec 2017 18:36:36 +0000 |
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 1:00 PM Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I believe a simple question but I cannot find a solution:
>
> I want to add an empty line at the begin of a rectangle and thus shift the
> while rest of only that column in the buffer down by 1 row.
> Example:
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> Having:
>
> AAAA 0000
> BBBB 1111
> CCCC 2222
> 3333
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> I want to get:
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> 0000
> AAAA 1111
> BBBB 2222
> CCCC 3333
>
I believe you simply
1. Select the rectangle:
AAAA
BBBB
CCCC
2. Cut the rectangle: C-x r k
3. Move point to the starting of the line containing "1111".
4. Paste the rectangle back: C-x r y
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Kaushal Modi