On Thu, 1 Jul 2021, Ali Corbin wrote:
You do have to be careful with rectangle cut-n-paste though, to space out far enough to clear the other columns before doing the paste. Otherwise it can get confused and mess the columns up.
Ali, Perhaps I needed to make the rectangle the width of the buffer? Anyway, ...
Also, I found when I was looking up this new-fangled rectangular copy without killing that you're using, there's an even newer rectangle command. C-x SPC sets (toggles really) the rectangle mark. Once you do that then you can use normal non-rectangular kill and yank commands on the rectangle.
This worked like a charm. Copied the names from that buffer to each ssn in that file's buffer. Another great Emacs lesson, thank you very much. Stay healthy ... and cool, Rich
