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-register REGISTER START END &optional DELETE-FLAG) Documentation: Copy rectangular region into register REGISTER. With prefix arg, delete as well. Called from program, takes four args: REGISTER, START, END and DELETE-FLAG. START and END are buffer positions giving two corners of rectangle. I happen to be using XEmacs, but these functions are common to XEmacs and Emacs. Others are documented in the Info files, for example. Uwe Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 -- Alan Wehmann wehmann(nospam)@fnal.gov _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
