Re: Emacs insert empty string

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 24.03.2011 um 11:25 schrieb Kenneth Brun Nielsen:

> Now I "regret" outcommenting the commands 600-800. Again I select the
> lines/columns of interest and use the 'CTRL-x rt' command and remove
> the "*" column (i.e. replace the first column with an empty string)


The documentation, in my interpretation and understanding, does not  
tell it would work. Because the rectangle functions *insert* and don't  
*overwrite* (maybe they would do when you activate overwrite-mode).  
And an empty inserted stays invisible otherwise it would not be an  
empty string but a (file and disk space) consuming string. Since  
decades (or such) I do something like this these modern days on the  
marked first column (i.e., mark in left-most column, point one column  
forward to the right, or vice-versa, or in numbers: 0 and 1):

        C-x r k

> Does my explanation make sense?

Yes.

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