08/22: emacs rectangle commands
Categories:
emacs
Posted by: bjb
Summary of emacs rectangle commands, with default keystrokes:
C-x r k kill-rectangle C-x r d delete-rectangle C-x r y yank-rectangle C-x r o open-rectangle C-x r c clear-rectangle M-x delete-whitespace-rectangle C-x r t <text><enter> replace rectangle contents with text (string-rectangle) M-x string-insert-rectangle<enter><string><enter> insert string on each line of the rectangle
from http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Rectangles.html
04/6: emacs tips
Categories:
emacs
Posted by: bjb
I just learned how to do a couple of things in emacs:
- put the line that has point in it at the top of the window:
M-0 C-l
(meta-zero control-ell) - toggle the buffer to read-only or writeable (
M-x view-mode
)