Re: [Jed-users-l] What is "rectangular" copy/paste?

["Tom Culliton" <culliton@xxxxxx>]

They allow you to manipulate columnar data by setting a mark at one corner
then positioning the cursor at the diagonally opposite one.

Kill/Cut deletes the contents and collapses the rectangle. The original
contents end up in the rectangle cut buffer.

Open inserts spaces pushing the contents of the rectangle and everything
following it on the line right.

Copy grabs a copy of the contents of the rectangle which ends up in the
rectangle cut buffer.

Insert/Paste acts like open except using the last rectangle in the
rectangle cut buffer.

The last one does a destructive fill operation on the rectangle.

On Sun, December 26, 2010 7:34 pm, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Simple question (i think): What is a "rectangular" copy and paste? For
> example, in the Emacs bindings you get:
>
> setkey("kill_rect",		"^XRK");
> setkey("open_rect",		"^XRO");
> setkey("copy_rect",		"^XRR");
> setkey("insert_rect",		"^XRY");
> setkey("string_rectangle",	"^XRT");
>
> And there are similar bindings for CUA. What do these functions do?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
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