GNU bug report logs - #31240
mouse commands not aware of rectangle regions

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: charles <at> aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)

Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 18:35:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.1

Done: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Federico Tedin <federicotedin <at> gmail.com>
To: charles <at> aurox.ch
Cc: 31240 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31240: 26.1; mouse-save-then-kill does not kill rectangles
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 23:26:59 -0300

I've looked into this bug. Its seems like the problem is in mouse.el,
where line 1610 could be changed from:

(kill-region (mark t) (point)))

to:

(kill-region (mark t) (point) 'region))

Which would make kill-region use the (potentially rectangular) region
instead of BEG and END. The problem is, many mouse-related functions
still use functions such as filter-buffer-substring and delete-region,
which are not rectangular-region aware. Would submitting a patch for
this line only make sense?
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