From: mail@axel-reichert.de   
      
   Geoff Clare  writes:   
      
   > Here's the "block delete" macro which deletes a rectangular block   
   > from marked position `a as top left to `b as bottom right   
      
   Cool!   
      
   But I understand that this was not available out of the box in vi? I am   
   very sure that vim can do all this (very handy!) rectangular magic, as   
   can Emacs. I cannot say since when for the latter.   
      
   Many advanced features start out as a keyboard macro, which then can be   
   cast into the extension language of choice. For Emacs, there is even a   
   package which translates a keyboard macro into the equivalent Lisp   
   code. After all (as in vi), the keystrokes are just bound to some   
   low-level function call.   
      
   Best regards   
      
   Axel   
      
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