On Sunday, May 10, Zed Pobre wrote > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > I've been trying to do something that should be reasonably simple in > Emacs (20) and I can't anything in any documentation about it. > > How do you select a number of columns in Emacs and then manipulate > them (usually I'm only interested in deleting them). NEdit provides a > nifty little feature that allows you to hold down the ctrl key while you > select with the mouse, and that will select a rectangular region > effectively allowing column selection, and so far whenever I've needed > to chop a few columns out of a large number of lines I've exited Emacs, > entered ne, selected, deleted, and then gone back to Emacs, but it > frustrates me that I can't figure out how to get Emacs to do it. You're looking for the *-rectangle functions. They're mapped by default under C-x r. Do C-x r C-h for a list. To delete a rectangle, do C-x r k Christian
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