Function: clear-rectangle

clear-rectangle is an autoloaded, interactive and byte-compiled function defined in rect.el.gz.

Signature

(clear-rectangle START END &optional FILL)

Documentation

Blank out the region-rectangle.

The text previously in the region is overwritten with blanks.

When called from a program the rectangle's corners are START and END. With a prefix (or a FILL) argument, also fill with blanks the parts of the rectangle which were empty.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 1.7.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/rect.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defun clear-rectangle (start end &optional fill)
  "Blank out the region-rectangle.
The text previously in the region is overwritten with blanks.

When called from a program the rectangle's corners are START and END.
With a prefix (or a FILL) argument, also fill with blanks the parts of the
rectangle which were empty."
  (interactive "*r\nP")
  (apply-on-rectangle 'clear-rectangle-line start end fill))