Re: block based selection

2005-04-28 Thread Alan Wehmann
I'm surprised that noone has yet suggested that you investigate the rectangle functions. For example: C-x r r runs `copy-rectangle-to-register' `copy-rectangle-to-register' is an interactive compiled Lisp function -- loaded from "/opt/build/xemacs-21.4.15/lisp/register.elc" (copy-rectangle-to-

Re: block based selection

2005-04-19 Thread Mathias Dahl
Neon Absentius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Technically speaking, Emacs doesn't really select a region, it just > remembers two positions, point and mark, on the buffer. There are > commands that operate on the whole region between point and mark, such > as the usual kill, yank etc, but also th

Re: block based selection

2005-04-17 Thread Quokka
Neon Absentius wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 04:04:55PM +0200, Uwe Mayer wrote: Hi, how do you change the way emacs selects regions of text? Currently it works line based, but I need to select a rectangular region from within a text. Can anyone help me with how to change the selection mode? If yo

Re: block based selection

2005-04-15 Thread Neon Absentius
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 04:04:55PM +0200, Uwe Mayer wrote: > Hi, > > how do you change the way emacs selects regions of text? Currently it works > line based, but I need to select a rectangular region from within a text. > Can anyone help me with how to change the selection mode? Technically spea

Re: block based selection

2005-04-15 Thread EScott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/15/2005 10:04:55 AM: > Hi, > > how do you change the way emacs selects regions of text? Currently it works > line based, but I need to select a rectangular region from within a text. > Can anyone help me with how to change the selection mode? > > Thanks > Uwe    

Re: block based selection

2005-04-15 Thread Albert Reiner
[Uwe Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:04:55 +0200]: > line based, but I need to select a rectangular region from within a text. C-x r C-h HTH, Albert. ___ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/li

block based selection

2005-04-15 Thread Uwe Mayer
Hi, how do you change the way emacs selects regions of text? Currently it works line based, but I need to select a rectangular region from within a text. Can anyone help me with how to change the selection mode? Thanks Uwe ___ Help-gnu-emacs mailin