Questions tagged [rectangle]
refers to the shape of the selected text area; it can be any arbitrary rectangular area of the text buffer extending multiple lines and need not include the entire line.
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Right-pad a series of lines to give them common length n
I often find myself wanting to take a number of consecutive lines with different lengths, and right-pad them with space so they have the same length, say n. What's a good way to do this painlessly?
If ...
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delete-rectangle fails when called in a program
I want to remove timestamps from a server log:
2023-11-22T11:36:28: # error!
2023-11-22T16:11:36: ...
2023-11-22T16:11:36: # new error!
Manually, I select the region at the buffer start, go to the ...
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How to select a noncontiguous region of arbitrary rows in a rectangle?
I can use Rectangle commands (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Rectangles.html) to operate over a text region.
What if I want to select text from columns COL to COL+4 over ...
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Creating Bindings for Rectangle Mark Mode Doesn't Work
I want to create bindings for rectangle-mark-mode though the methods described above haven't worked for me.
I've tried using an alist that I thought it possessed, but Emacs returned a bug saying its ...
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Combine two commands
To create a list from sentences in org mode, I use following command
string-insert-rectangle
replace-regexp ^ with -
How can I combine these two to form a single keyboard short-cut?
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To remove characters in the beginnings of lines
To add // in the beginnings of multiple lines I can use either string-insert-rectangle or string-rectangle (C-x r t).
But how is it possible to remove these characters instead?
This question is not ...
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How to select and delete a column of text in emacs?
I have this text
1 A
2 B
3 C
I want to remove the first column to make it
A
B
C
Ok so I need to make a rectangle. Reading about rectangles I see
"To specify a rectangle for a command to work on,...
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Count Words in a Rectangle
When I select a rectangle and count the words (M =) in the selection it counts as if I had used the normal selection method.
Is there a way to count only in the rectangle?
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Highlight rectangle and non-rectangle selection at the same time
By default, Emacs highlights the non-rectangular selection; alternatively, you can use (rectangle-mark-mode) to show the rectangular selection. Instead, I'd like to always show both, by highlighting ...
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How to write functions that only operate on characters within a rectangular-region?
I've found emacs has support for rectangular selection, however I didn't see references to API's for only operating on contents within the rectangle mark.
How would this be acomplished?
Take this ...
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kill-ring-save rectangle and paste transposed?
Suppose I have some code written like:
a_to_b = self.tversky(a, b)
b_to_c = self.tversky(b, c)
d_to_e = self.tversky(d, e)
e_to_f = self.tversky(e, f)
g_to_h = self.tversky(g, h)
I would like to ...
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Replace string in rectangular region?
When you select a region normally, you can do a replace-string on only that region.
It would be very useful to select a rectangular region (via C-x SPC), and be able to replace-string on only that ...
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kill rectangle not working on Mac (missing file/library)
I just upgraded to emacs 26.2 using homebrew on my MAC (update: I had actually done a global "brew update" and assumed it had also updated emacs) and now kill-rectangle with
C-x r k no longer works, ...
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How to postfix with a string each line of a multiline selection?
Reminder:C-x r t string <RET> replaces rectangle contents with string on each line (string-rectangle). https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Rectangles.html
Can I use this, ...
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Prepend to block of text, but ignore blank lines
How to add the string 'export ' to the beginning of each line of this text,
with emacs:
RBENV_VERSION="2.n.0"
AUTHORIZE_NET_API_LOGIN_ID=example
AUTHORIZE_NET_TRANSACTION_KEY=example
# Google ...
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completion-kill-region breaks rectangle-mark-mode
When using dynamic completion, rectangle-mark-mode is broken, in so far as C-w no longer respects just killing the rectangle but instead kills the usual full (non-rectangular) region.
M-w on the ...
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Search within column or rectangle
Is there a simple way to search within the current column or within a rectangle?
I am navigating a CSV file and would like to find the value "10" in a particular column. Searching the entire file is ...
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How can I apply a keyboard macro to every line that starts with rectangle mark region
Lets suppose I would like to edit my text and to add comments to the column in the text. This is my text:
something-text1 foobar1 something-text1
something-text2 foobar2 something-text2
---
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Pasting rectangle indents text to the right
Copying and pasting a rectangle from the following table with C-x SPC C-x r M-w C-x r y shifts the beginning of the line to the right as shown below:
|----+----------+------+------+--------|
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untabify within a rectangular region?
How may I call untabify against a rectangular region?
This screenshot illustrates what I am trying to accomplish. I have a messy mixture of tabs and spaces in the region I have circled. untabify ...
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Lines vanish when using string rectangle with line-wrap
I paste this text, copied from IBM's social
responsibility, into an Emacs
buffer where the frame is 80 characters, or is small enough to cause a line-wrap:
02 Education and skills
We are ...
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how add vertical column to vertical column
I have column of text like this:
Abba
Foo
Boo
M
and I want to transform it to:
Abba = Abba
Foo = Foo
Boo = Boo
M = M
I can add " = " to end column of text via C-x space and M-x string-insert-...
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string-rectangle command pollutes kill-ring after upgrade to Emacs 25
In Emacs 24 I used to have a workflow for inserting a string into multiple lines at once:
Go to the desired position in the first line.
Press C-Space to place the mark.
Go to the last line (while ...
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Aligning (ditaa) rectangles with variable string width in yasnippet
To quickly add simple diagrams to notes, I've created yasnippets for ditaa boxes. The text inside each box is a $x - and therefore has a length I do not know at snippet design time. As a consequence, ...
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immediately invoke string-rectangle upon rectangle-mark-mode selection
A common use-case that I have is to add a string to the same position of each line of text.
For example, I might start with
expect(one).toEqual(true);
expect(two).toEqual(false);
which I want to ...
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Transposing rectangular region
I have a piece of code like this in yaml.
security_group_sig_egress_ipv6: "allowed_remote_sig_egress_ipv6"
security_group_sig_ingress_ipv6: "allowed_remote_sig_ingress_ipv6"
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non-character input-event when using rectangular commands since version 24.4
Since version 24.4 and till 25.1 when I want to make a rectangular copy C-x r r RET I got the following message: non-character-input-event
It appears that this problem happens only for rectangular ...
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Search/replace inside a rectangular region, without CUA mode
I want to use search/replace (string or regexp) inside a rectangular region (aka column selection?).
Consider this question: Search and replace inside a rectangle in emacs
That's what I want, except ...
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Copying a rectangular selection to system clipboard
Does anyone know a command or somtething to copy an rectangular selection (as with C-x r M-w / copy-rectange-as-kill) and put the killed rectangle into the system clipboard like with the kill-ring-...
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Copy text as rectangle
This is the block of text that I intend to copy as rectangle (without the line numbers).
1. ALM_KRmet_DCDO_RPMP_START
2. ALM_KRmet_DCDO_RPMP_STOP
3. ALM_KRmet_DIDC_RPMP_TRIP
4. ...
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Inserting line break into a rectangle
I have a list that looks like
1.530 2.895
4.362 50.14
3.14 2.7
And I want it to look like
1.530
2.895
4.362
50.14
3.14
2.7
I suspect there is a clever way to use a rectangle to do this but I ...
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How to select (and copy) a column of an org table *without* rectangle selection?
It seems to me that the normal way to copy a column of an org table is by rectangle selection (see here). That is, first the column is selected by marking all of it by hand, and then it is copied with ...
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Virtual space for rectangular selections (at least)
In Vim there is the virtualedit variable which can be set so that Vim allows the cursor to move past the end of the line always or only when in visual block mode. Is it possible to configure Emacs to ...
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Copy rectangle text into org-table
I have 5 rows of text:
1 0%
2 от 1% до 20%
3 от 21% до 50%
4 от 51% до 100%
5 100%
And I would like to copy everything after digits (1..5) to a table column PRC
| N | PRC|
| | |
| |...
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Copy a column of uneven width that ends with a specific character
I have a data file that looks as follows
ALGO = Fast
EDIFF = 6.7e-05
ENCUT = 520
IBRION = 2
ICHARG = 1
ISIF = 2
ISMEAR = 0
ISPIN = 2
I'm interested in copying the first column of uneven width but ...
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Insert lines when yanking rectangle rather than inserting among following lines?
Having copied the 3x3 rectangular region containing a's, how can I yank/paste that content at the desired point without slicing into the following text? The following is the behavior for:
M-w (kill-...
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Yank a column of text copied from the clipboard
I often seem to want to copy paste multiple columns, for example, I paste one column
line one
line two
line three
Now I'd like to be able to yank another column behind it. Assuming my kill buffer ...
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How to find and replace regex within a rectangle selection block
I have the following text:
| Row # | Facility | Recycled Off-site |
|-------+--------------------------+-------------------+
| 1 | 1234, 12th st, jamestown | 216,574 |
| ...
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AUCTeX: toggle sub- and superscript-fontification
Or: How to put face changes in a defun?
I use AUCTeX to edit my LaTeX files and I like the way AUCTeX displays the sub- and superscripts (not only in formulas).
Not only it shifts the sub- or ...
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Kill rectangle with cua-mode support
There are many nice column editing features in CUA mode. After hitting Ctrl+RETURN, binded to cua-set-rectangle-mark, you get some help in the minibuffer:
But I can't find the shortcut to cut/kill ...
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How to control width of rectangular selection in Emacs 25?
There is a cool new feature in Emacs 25: visual support for rectangular
selection. However, I would like to set its width to one pixel when it's
“logical” width is zero columns of text. By default it'...
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evil rectangles with point past EOL
When visually selecting rectangles with C-v in evil, the point is not allowed to pass the end of line.
This is in contrast with:
rectangle-mark-mode
cua-rectangle-mark-mode
Both of which allow the ...
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Find rectangular selection
Is there an easy way to search for other occurences of a selected rectangle, regardless of the column at which the pattern starts?
As an example, when searching for the 4x2 text block in lines 1+2 in ...
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How do i get rid of "default" (last used) string in some emacs functions?
I have the following problem : when i use 'C-x r t' (string-rectangle), i am prompted to enter some string, to replace the selected rectangle. Lets say i type ";;" (to comment out the rectangle). This ...
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string-rectangle: how to make input vary?
How can string-rectangle or C-xrt convert
aRandomText_-1
aRandomText_-1
aRandomText_-1
aRandomText_-1
aRandomText_-1
aRandomText_-1
aRandomText_-1
aRandomText_-1
aRandomText_-1
aRandomText_-1
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Use multiple cursor if region is active, otherwise use CUA, how?
I’m trying to implement this when I press C-return:
If there’s an active region, it activates multiple cursors by calling
mc/edit-lines
If there’s no active region, it initiates rectangular selection ...
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Bug in downcase-region when using cua-set-rectangle-mark?
Is the following a bug or a feature? If the former, how do I file? If the latter, can someone explain the logic?
On the following content in my buffer (*scratch*), upon marking the inner rectangle ...
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rectangle-insert in Emacs 24.4
Emacs 24.3 had a nice way of inserting text into rectangles:
Select rectangle.
C-x r t <string-to-be-inserted> RET
This doesn't seem to work in Emacs 24.4. I tried rectangle-mark-mode using C-...
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Add a constant decimal value to a column of numbers
Suppose I have a file containing the following:
ATOM 10 H5 LIG 1 -0.684 2.034 0.000 1.00 0.00
ATOM 11 C1 LIG 1 0.974 0.686 0.000 1.00 0.00
ATOM 12 H1 ...
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Enable Emacs column selection using mouse
How to use mouse to select column in Emacs? How to enable it?
The emacs wiki RectangleMark says,
there is mouse support for rectangle highlighting by dragging the
mouse while holding down the ...
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