On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Russell Senior wrote: > >> Try C-h a "rectangle" >> >> That should list a bunch of commands relating to rectangles. > > Thank you. It also turns out that Rogan's series of key strokes works very > well. What threw me is that the block highlighting is for the entire row > while the commands act only on the intended columns. >
I'm glad it's working out! I just found rect-mark.el: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/rect-mark.el which provides an alternate way to work with rectangular selections that *does* display a representative highlight. --Rogan > 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