On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > I thought that I had saved the instructions for this from several years > ago, but apparently I did not. > > I need to remove double quotes from a specific column for all 3200 lines > in a file. I know that I can do a regex search and replace for the beginning > of each line, but the quotes I need to remove are in the interior. It seems > to me that there is a way to block a vertical column and manipulate text > within that marked block, but I no longer remember how to do this.
Put the cursor on the first column of the text you want to remove, set the mark (c-space), move to the last row, and one colum *past* the right-most column you want to remove, and then run kill-rectangle (c-x r k). There are a few other foo-rectangle commands, but I don't know them well, other than yank-rectangle (c-x r y). Note that these keystrokes are *three*distinct* presses, not a 4-key chord. (press ctrl-x, release, then r, then k) --Rogan > > Pointers or clues are appreciated. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
