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24.4; zero width rectangular selection displaces text

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Message #43 received at 18793 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 18793 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18793: 24.4; zero width rectangular selection displaces text
Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:33:20 +0200

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

> It might be better and easier to introduce a defcustom that disables
> the visualization of zero-width rectangles.  Was that considered as a
> solution to this issue?

I think we wanted to keep that?

I'm not suggesting that it's worth implementing something as complex as
this just for this feature, but like I said -- I think something like
this may be useful, in general, for marking things, and if we had it, it
would be natural to use it here, too.

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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