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Emacs Rectangle Editing quick help

Enter picture mode (ESC-x picture-mode)
Marking rectangle

Go to top left corner, press CTRL-Space.
Go to bottom right, press CTRL-x-x (This selects the rectangle)

Working on rectangle

Press CTRL-x-r-k to kill the rectangle (and make it available as ‘last-killed-rectangle’)
Press CTRL-x-r-d to delete the rectangle
Press CTRL-x-r-y to yank ‘last-killed-rectangle’ with its top right at the mark.
Press ESC-x-clear-rectangle to fill the rectangle [...]