GNU bug report logs - #16403
24.3.50; Rectangular selection visually disturbing

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ivan Kalyaev <ivan.kalyaev <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 10:16:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 16403 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
To: Ivan Kalyaev <ivan.kalyaev <at> gmail.com>, 16403 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16403: 24.3.50; Rectangular selection visually disturbing
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:10:51 -0800

On 01/09/2014 02:15 AM, Ivan Kalyaev wrote:
> When I press <C-x SPS> to start vertical selection lines of text shift to the
> right because empty selection is represented with a line symbol.
>
> It looked like font rendering glitch at first. The jerky motion is disturbing.
>
> How do you think the visual experience could be made better?
>
> For comparison, vim selects the starting character right away.

I usually use Emacs in a window system. In a tty, yes, this behavior 
looks bad. We should do something about it.
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