blank areas.
* Killing by Lines:: How to kill entire lines of text at one time.
* Other Kill Commands:: Commands to kill large regions of text and
- syntactic units such as words and sentences.
+ syntactic units such as words and sentences.
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@table @kbd
@item C-x r k
-Kill the text of the region-rectangle, saving its contents as the
+Kill the text of the region-rectangle, saving its contents as the
``last killed rectangle'' (@code{kill-rectangle}).
@item C-x r d
Delete the text of the region-rectangle (@code{delete-rectangle}).
Insert blank space to fill the space of the region-rectangle
(@code{open-rectangle}). This pushes the previous contents of the
region-rectangle rightward.
-@item M-x clear-rectangle
-Clear the region-rectangle by replacing its contents with spaces.
+@item C-x r c
+Clear the region-rectangle by replacing its contents with spaces
+(@code{clear-rectangle}).
@item M-x delete-whitespace-rectangle
Delete whitespace in each of the lines on the specified rectangle,
starting from the left edge column of the rectangle.
@kindex C-x r o
@findex open-rectangle
+@kindex C-x r c
@findex clear-rectangle
There are two commands you can use for making blank rectangles:
-@kbd{M-x clear-rectangle} which blanks out existing text, and @kbd{C-x r
-o} (@code{open-rectangle}) which inserts a blank rectangle. Clearing a
-rectangle is equivalent to deleting it and then inserting a blank
-rectangle of the same size.
+@kbd{C-x r c} (@code{clear-rectangle}) which blanks out existing text,
+and @kbd{C-x r o} (@code{open-rectangle}) which inserts a blank
+rectangle. Clearing a rectangle is equivalent to deleting it and then
+inserting a blank rectangle of the same size.
@findex delete-whitespace-rectangle
The command @kbd{M-x delete-whitespace-rectangle} deletes horizontal
rectangle shifts right.
@findex string-insert-rectangle
- The command @kbd{M-x string-insert-rectangle} is similar to
-@code{string-rectangle}, but inserts the string on each line,
+ The command @kbd{M-x string-insert-rectangle} is similar to
+@code{string-rectangle}, but inserts the string on each line,
shifting the original text to the right.