GNU bug report logs - #1184
document how to deal with beer belly rectangles

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:45:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 5351

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1184: document how to deal with beer belly rectangles
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:38:46 +0800

In (info "(emacs)Rectangles"), please
mention how to deal with this:

This paragraph you are reading is a
potential rectangle that is hard to put
point and mark around, because it is fat in
the middle. Thus while it is easy to mark its
left side, how are you going to mark its
right upper or lower corner without
altering the buffer to add spaces
in order to get the cursor there?
Worse yet, the buffer might
even be read-only.
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