[PLUG] Column/Block Editing in Emacs -- RESOLVED

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   I need to remove double quotes from a specific column for all 3200 lines
> in a file. I know that I can do a regex search and replace for the
> beginning of each line, but the quotes I need to remove are in the
> interior. It seems to me that there is a way to block a vertical column
> and manipulate text within that marked block, but I no longer remember how
> to do this.

   Well, it turns out that I cannot find a way to block a rectangle of text
rather than a stream of text in emacs. However, 'joe' has the capability of
turning text selection into a rectangular block. That must have been what I
used in the past.

Rich