Timeline for How to delete the first few n chars of every line?
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| Jan 14, 2022 at 13:48 | comment | added | questionto42 | "move down to the last line you want to act on, C-u number C-f to move to the bottom right corner": not really emacs like, yet, you can also just click with the mouse ;) on the position where your rectangle should end and then C-x r d. | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 18:48 | comment | added | davidrmcharles | This just worked for me on GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.21) of 2013-10-25 on allspice, modified by Debian | |
| Oct 27, 2014 at 23:07 | comment | added | Malabarba | My condolences... :-( | |
| Oct 27, 2014 at 22:56 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @Malabarba Only since Emacs 24 though. (Writing this on a machine with Emacs 23. They're still very much around.) | |
| Oct 27, 2014 at 15:43 | comment | added | Malabarba | instead of trying to remember all the rectangle commands, you can also use C-x spc, instead of C-spc, which turns your region into a rectangle and everything just works. | |
| Sep 23, 2014 at 20:51 | vote | accept | programking | ||
| Sep 23, 2014 at 20:51 | vote | accept | programking | ||
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| Sep 23, 2014 at 20:47 | history | answered | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |