Re: [PLUG] Column/Block Editing in Emacs -- RESOLVED

2009-11-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Rogan Creswick wrote: > 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. Donkey chains, Rich _

Re: [PLUG] Column/Block Editing in Emacs -- RESOLVED

2009-11-19 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Rich Shepard 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

Re: [PLUG] Column/Block Editing in Emacs -- RESOLVED

2009-11-19 Thread Rich Shepard
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 comm

Re: [PLUG] Column/Block Editing in Emacs -- RESOLVED

2009-11-19 Thread Russell Senior
> "Rich" == Rich Shepard writes: Rich> I need to remove double quotes from a specific column for all Rich> 3200 lines in a file. I know that I can do a regex search and Rich> replace for the beginning of each line, but the quotes I need to Rich> remove are in the interior. It seems to me that

Re: [PLUG] Column/Block Editing in Emacs -- RESOLVED

2009-11-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: > 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