Emacs: Copy Rectangle Region to kill-ring 🚀
Here a command to copy rectangle region to emacs's kill-ring. [see Emacs: Edit Column Text, Rectangle Commands]
put this in your Emacs Init File:
(defun xah-copy-rectangle-to-kill-ring (Begin End) "Copy region as column (rectangle region) to `kill-ring' See also: `kill-rectangle', `copy-to-register'. URL `http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/emacs_copy_rectangle_text_to_clipboard.html' version 2016-07-17" ;; extract-rectangle suggested by YoungFrog, 2012-07-25 (interactive "r") (require 'rect) (kill-new (mapconcat 'identity (extract-rectangle Begin End) "\n")))