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From: campbell@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Gary Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: How to kill a rectangular block using micro-emacs
Message-ID: <15080001@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
Date: 20 Mar 91 18:18:25 GMT
References: <1991Mar7.023616.16075@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
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While we're on the subject of blocks...  I sometimes want to decolumnize
text.  Insert-block almost does what I want, but although it inserts
horizontally, it seems to overlay vertically.  What I did was a
delete-block, then I went to the block buffer, (I think I trimmed the
trailing blanks) then esc-w'ed the entire buffer, returned to the file
and inserted it.  This worked fine until I tried to do this with a
keyboard macro (C-x().  It's been a while, but I think it executed the
first time, but didn't work any more than that.  I think it just didn't
do anything.  Sometime when I get some time, I plan to either try the
internal debug mode, and/or give the Turbo Debugger a workout and see if
I can figure out why it doesn't work.  In the mean time, do you know of
any reason why it doesn't work or a "standard" way to do the same thing
I missed?  I suppose the "real" way to do this is add another piece of
code to the package, which would probably be faster than figuring out
why it isn't working with the "remember" function.

Thanks in advance.

Gary Campbell
campbell@hpdmd48.BOI.HP.COM