GNU bug report logs - #18069
24.4.50; doc of rectangle highlighting & redisplay code

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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:02:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 24.4.50

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

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 18069 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18069: 24.4.50; doc of rectangle highlighting & redisplay code
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 02:59:54 +0100

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> None of the so-called "New rectangle integration with kill-ring"
> behavior is documented in doc strings.  It is also not documented in
> NEWS, AFAICT.

Having a doc string on, say, `rectangle--extract-region' to say "extract
the region, but in a rectangular way" doesn't really seem to say more
than the function name itself, so I don't think that'd be helpful.

Closing.

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