Re: programming editor

[Victor Munoz <vmunoz@macul.ciencias.uchile.cl>]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:39:35AM +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote:

> I am sure there is an Emacs mode *somewhere* that would allow this. Perhaps 
> in picture mode it can be done.
> 


 XEmacs does rectangular cut/paste with regular text files.
 
 Hold Alt-<Mouse Right Button> and drag the mouse, and you will be marking 
 a rectangular area.
 
 Then kill it with C-x r k.  Put the cursor where you want to paste, and
 type C-x r y. If you don't want to delete the rectangular text from the
 original location, just undo with C-x u after killing the rectangle, and
then paste it. (A 'copy rectangle to kill buffer' command would avoid this, 
but couldn't find one when I searched, I admit.)
 
 Regards,
 
 	 					Victor