GNU bug report logs - #17684
24.4.50; Feature Request -- Vertical Lines to the Left of and Through Characters

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Message #104 received at 17684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com>
Cc: mbork <at> mbork.pl, 22873 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, johnw <at> gnu.org, akioburns <at> icloud.com,
 17684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eliz <at> gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22873: #22873 (multiple fake cursors); and, #17684
 (crosshairs / fill-column).
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 18:21:14 +0200

Thanks for the explanation.  Some comments:

Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com> writes:

> Drew Adams contacted me several months ago and requested that I change
> `crosshairs.el` to anything else since he has a crosshairs library on
> wiki, and he didn't want any potential confusion.  There is nothing
> better I could think of as a name for the 17684 Lisp library and since
> crosshairs goes against the wishes of Drew, I just went ahead and
> changed the name to +-mode.el, because the plus sign looks like a
> crosshairs, and I use the plus sign as the mode-line minor-mode
> lighter.

Well, +-mode is not acceptable as an Emacs library name, unfortunately.
The concept is usually "cross hairs", so cross-hairs.el would be fine.

> 22873 (multiple cursors) is presently just a framework to generate
> fake cursors anywhere on the window-body.  Nothing has been written
> yet to perform any type of user command/function action at each
> location of fake cursors.

Ah, I see.

> In order to reduce as much as possible any modifications to existing
> functions in the core of Emacs, I copied a lot of those functions
> functions, changed their names, added additional arguments as needed
> (supra), and modified some of the body as needed.

If this is to be included in Emacs, that duplication has to be resolved,
though.

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