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Re: How to copy rectangles
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Re: How to copy rectangles |
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Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:37:54 -0400 |
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Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> There is a nice yank-rectangle command -- I really like it.
>
> My problem is that there is only a kill-rectangle command. Why is there no
> kill-rectangle-save command? I need it!
>
> I can copy a rectangle to a register with copy-rectangle command, but how
> do I extract it from the register? There is no insert-rectangle command. I
> guess insert-register works. Well anyway, does anyone have a
> kill-rectangle-save command I could have? Was it omitted intentionally?
>
> Thanks for the good work you guys!
> Sieg
I was just looking at the date on your posting. I wasn't planning to answer
it because I don't know of one. But the thought occurred to me that maybe
that's the reason no one else has answered.
Just a thought: Would it be easier for you to make a macro with a different
keybinding to insert the rectangle to and from your register? Would that
simplify things?
I did something similar with query-replace. It's easier for me to type C-c q
than M-%. Sometimes there are better shortcuts.
For what it's worth.
--Rod
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