I want to select or highlight a block in Emacs without using the mouse, but doing it from the keyboard like Vim’s visual mode. What is the easiest way to do this from a keyboard?
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I want to select or highlight a block in Emacs without using the mouse, but doing it from the keyboard like Vim’s visual mode. What is the easiest way to do this from a keyboard?
Take a look at region-rectangle in Emacs.
In short, you start selection like usual with Control–Space, then kill region with Control–x r k and paste (or yank) killed block with Control–x r y.