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From: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan/2113674)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs,comp.emacs
Subject: block manipulation
Keywords: is there a way to manipulate columns
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Date: 1 Feb 90 17:28:23 GMT
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Is there any support in GNU EMACS for manipulating blocks of texts
(not regions) spanning multiple lines? Or how about a real simple one,
how do you get rid of a column without having to write a lisp
functions to go down line by line deleting a particular character
position?

						Ron

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