Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bu.edu!bu-cs!snorkelwacker!think!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!sgi!shinobu!odin!sgi.com!scotth From: scotth@corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: block manipulation Message-ID: Date: 1 Feb 90 16:46:45 GMT References: <1418@awdprime.UUCP> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: scotth@sgi.com (Scott Henry) Followup-To: gnu.emacs Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA Lines: 28 In-reply-to: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com's message of 1 Feb 90 17:28:23 GMT rsw> Is there any support in GNU EMACS for manipulating blocks of texts rsw> (not regions) spanning multiple lines? Or how about a real simple one, rsw> how do you get rid of a column without having to write a lisp rsw> functions to go down line by line deleting a particular character rsw> position? rsw> Ron Do an apropos on "rectangle". I get the following functions: clear-rectangle copy-rectangle-to-register delete-rectangle kill-rectangle open-rectangle yank-rectangle These functions are designed to manipulate rectangular areas of text -- eg: columns 15-23 of lines 21-104. There are a couple of "quirks" when using them at the end of lines, but they are invaluable when they are usefull. -- Scott Henry | These are my | Tardis Express -- when it Information Services, | Opinions only!| absolutely, positively Silicon Graphics, Inc | Whose else? | has to be there -- yesterday.