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Re: rectangle mode selection


From: rusi
Subject: Re: rectangle mode selection
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 21:33:27 -0800 (PST)
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On Mar 7, 10:06 am, Le Wang <l26w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 4:58 PM, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > (info "(emacs)Cua bindings")
> > has a brief mention of rectangle commands.
>
> > So you
> > 1. ensure that cua-mode is on
> > 2. get into 'enhanced rectangle' submode of cua with C-RET
>
> > Unfortunately trying to track some of the available functionality
> > there shows some of those functions as undocumented (eg M-p)
>
> > So there are 2 doc bugs here:
> > 1. The info page does not spell out the functionality
> > 2. The functions doing that functionality are not properly documented
>
> I don't know about the documentation situation, but when you press C-enter
> to start rectangle selection, the a message occurs in the minibuffer
> explaining what your options are (including M-p).  You can bring back this
> messsage by pressing C-?.

Yes of course (thats where I found it :-)
And then how to find out more about it?


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