Subject: bug#27974: Acknowledgement (25.2; string-rectangle on-the-fly preview bad)

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 05:37:15 +0300

> From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 22:05:02 -0400
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Bob Proulx <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Let me suggest the following addition to the NEWS file.
> >
> >  *** 'string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result.
> > +This is controlled by the rectangle-preview variable.  Defaults to t.
> > +Set (setq rectangle-preview nil) if you want the previous behavior.
> 
> I think it should also be documented in the docstring of
> string-rectangle:

I agree.

> +When called interactively and option `rectangle-preview' is
> +non-nil, the result is previewed as the string is entered in the
> +minibuffer.

Can you reword this to make less use of passive tense?

Thanks.