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

[Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just tried it. That's so weird... and cool...  It's great for
manipulating a data file with data in columns. Is that it's mainly
used for?

Daniel.

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Tom Culliton <culliton@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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