On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 08:27:23 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I have a large data file I want to save blocks of lines to
> separate files without saving the entire buffer with a new name.
>
> My Web search foo is not working this morning: I cannot write a
> search string to find how to save selected lines in a buffer to a
> different file name (there's no menu option for doing this).
>
> Pointer appreciated.
>
> Rich
The following command will do what you want:
M-x write-region
You'll have to set the region first, of course.
--Dale
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