GNU bug report logs - #42307
Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays

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Message #32 received at 42307 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>, "Gregory Heytings via \"Bug reports for GNU
 Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors\"" <"Gregory Heytings via
 "Bug.reports.for.GNU.Emacs <at> userv0122.oracle.com>
Cc: Gregory Heytings <ghe <at> sdf.org>, 42307 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#42307: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 18:25:37 -0700 (PDT)

> How this highlighting is different from the rectangle selection mode
> activated by 'C-x SPC'?

I'm not the OP, but I think the point is to provide
different behaviors for overlays, just as we now
have the original behavior (rebaptized as :extend)
and the new behavior that doesn't extend.

It's not about text selection or defining the region.
It's about overlay properties.  That's my understanding,
anyway.

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