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Alt+R is what I was talking about, but everything
> went haywire when I tried to paste the block > I copied as after the first line in the block was > pasted where I wanted it, the remainder shot > over to the left and needed lots of moving > around, Several thoughts.First, copying a rectangular block is not exactly intuitive. You aren't doing the typical copy then paste sequence. You are doing a mark and then paste. You mark the rectangle with Alt-R on diagonal corners and d NOT do Alt-C! you just move the cursor over the upper left corner of the destination and do Alt-Z.
This brings up the second bit of oddness, which is actually desireable behaviour. When you Alt-Z, the rectangular block will not insert any new lines; it will overlay the marked rectangle over the top of the lines which are already there.
In general, these two facets mean that if you want to copy a block of named from a DS to C-specifications, you want to pre-position your C-specifications first. Typically, I do something like this:
Move to the C-specs. Create a skeleton line (MOVE or EVAL or...) Ctrl-Q to drop a bookmark Alt-L to mark the line Alt-V to copy it as many times as needed Move to the D-specs Alt-R on diagonal corners of the name columns Alt-Q to go back to the bookmarked C-specs Position cursor where the upper left should go Alt-Z to copy the blockAlt-U to un-mark the names, unless you also need the same block for say, result fields.
--buck
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