GNU bug report logs - #38013
[PATCH] Rectangular region selection with mouse

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 23:11:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #77 received at 38013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at, 38013 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38013: [PATCH] Rectangular region selection with mouse
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 20:32:46 +0100

9 nov. 2019 kl. 18.54 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:

> Not sure what I'm missing, but those issues I described before are
> still there.  Can you tell what you changed and how?

In the first patch, the start and end corners of the rectangle had to be a point in the buffer; ie, not a position beyond the end of a line or in the middle of a tab character. That was not only unnecessarily restrictive but also made the rectangle flutter back and forth as the dragged corner passed through lines of different length. Now the rectangle corners can be any character cell.

If that was not the reason for your concern, would you mind describing the problem more in detail and how to reproduce it?
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