halpern@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David Halpern) (03/07/91)
In emacs there exist kill-rectangle and yank-rectangle commands. Are
there equivalent commands in microemacs 3.10? I can't find any. If someone
has some macros to do these things I would appreciate if they could send
them to me or let me know how to do them.
Thanks in advance,
David Halpern
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e-mail:halpern@casbah.acns.nwu.edudan@mdbs.uucp (Daniel Lawrence) (03/10/91)
In article <1991Mar7.023616.16075@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> halpern@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David Halpern) writes: > >In emacs there exist kill-rectangle and yank-rectangle commands. Are >there equivalent commands in microemacs 3.10? I can't find any. If someone >has some macros to do these things I would appreciate if they could send >them to me or let me know how to do them. In the standard command files that come with MicroEMACS there is a command page called BLOCK mode. Hit the F8 key to bring up the page loader, hit B to bring up the BLOCK page. It has rectangular cut/paste commands active on the shifted function keys. The actual macro code for these is in bpage.cmd. >Thanks in advance, >David Halpern No Problem. Daniel Lawrence voice: (317) 742-5153 arpa: mdbs!dan@ee.ecn.purdue.edu The Programmer's Room Fido: 1:201/10 - (317) 742-5533
campbell@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Gary Campbell) (03/21/91)
While we're on the subject of blocks... I sometimes want to decolumnize text. Insert-block almost does what I want, but although it inserts horizontally, it seems to overlay vertically. What I did was a delete-block, then I went to the block buffer, (I think I trimmed the trailing blanks) then esc-w'ed the entire buffer, returned to the file and inserted it. This worked fine until I tried to do this with a keyboard macro (C-x(). It's been a while, but I think it executed the first time, but didn't work any more than that. I think it just didn't do anything. Sometime when I get some time, I plan to either try the internal debug mode, and/or give the Turbo Debugger a workout and see if I can figure out why it doesn't work. In the mean time, do you know of any reason why it doesn't work or a "standard" way to do the same thing I missed? I suppose the "real" way to do this is add another piece of code to the package, which would probably be faster than figuring out why it isn't working with the "remember" function. Thanks in advance. Gary Campbell campbell@hpdmd48.BOI.HP.COM