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### 13.3 Saving Rectangles in Registers

A register can contain a rectangle instead of linear text. See Rectangles, for basic information on how to specify a rectangle in the buffer.

`C-x r r r`

  Copy the region-rectangle into register r (`copy-rectangle-to-register`). With numeric argument, delete it as well.

`C-x r i r`

  Insert the rectangle stored in register r (if it contains a rectangle) (`insert-register`).

The `C-x r i r` (`insert-register`) command, previously documented in Text Registers, inserts a rectangle rather than a text string, if the register contains a rectangle.