[OS X Emacs] column editing

[Nathaniel Cunningham]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:14 PM, juan restrepo <juan.m.restrepo at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> ...tried to find the commands that allow one to copy and paste,
> for example, a multi-column ascii file, as one could do with awk.
>
> Is it still possible to do this in aquamacs?
>

Certainly.  See the emacs manual section on Rectangle commands :
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Rectangles.html

Also useful is the enhanced rectangle support in cua.el, which is included
in Aquamacs; see "CUA rectangle support" in
http://www.cua.dk/cua.el

--Nathaniel
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