Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!mende From: mende@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende Pie) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Editing Columns? Message-ID: Date: 4 Aug 89 19:22:49 GMT References: <123@cmdfs2.intel.com> Organization: Yows `R' us Lines: 19 In article <123@cmdfs2.intel.com> bklaas@cmdfs2.intel.com (Brian Klaas~) writes: > Does anyone have an easy method of editing down columns rather than > across rows using emacs?? there are two things that might help you here... 1) rect.el this lisp lib. defines a number of commands that work on any arbitray rectangle. you can cut/insert/perform functions on them. 2) picture.el this lisp lib. puts you into a overwrite like mode where you can do many funky things, such as type in any of 8 directions. If you want to type down, then you can do this real easly. both of them are in the standard gnu distribution (I think) /Bob... --