Re: How to copy rectangles

[Gareth Rees]

Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> Why is there no kill-rectangle-save command? I need it!

Because you can use 'copy-rectangle-to-register' (C-x r r REGISTER) to
save a copy, and 'insert-register' (C-x r i REGISTER) to insert it.

However, it's easy to roll your own:

    (defun kill-rectangle-save (start end)
      "Save the region-rectangle as the last killed one."
      (interactive "r")
      (require 'rect)  ; Make sure killed-rectangle is defvar'ed.
      (setq killed-rectangle (extract-rectangle start end)))

-- 
Gareth Rees