Re: block based selection

[Quokka]

Neon Absentius wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 04:04:55PM +0200, Uwe Mayer wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > how do you change the way emacs selects regions of text? Currently it works
> > line based, but I need to select a rectangular region from within a text.
> > Can anyone help me with how to change the selection mode?

If you use cua mode it has a rectange editing mode.

In cvs emacs this is in cua-rect.el.

I find it easier to use than the "standard" rectange functions.

Paul