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How to do select column then do editing in GNU Emacs?

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I've been using ViM, TextMate, and GNU Emacs for years. For example here is the text I want to edit And here is the text result I want to have When I'm on Vim, I can do "Ctrl v" on the very first line and first column, then press "2 j", then press "i", then type "bar", done. When I'm on Textmate, I…

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Two options come to mind. The first is rectangles (as mentioned in another answer). The explicit directions for that are: goto first line, first column C-SPC goto last line (first column) C-x r t bar SPC RET Another option, which provides very nice …

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