GNU bug report logs - #66780
[PATCH] Improve rectangle-mark-mode when transient-mark-mode is off

Previous Next

Full log

Message #35 received at 66780 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu <at> vodafonemail.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 66780 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#66780: [PATCH] Improve rectangle-mark-mode when
 transient-mark-mode is off
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2023 15:49:03 +0100

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

> Serious reasons to make the change.  For this particular one, I guess
> arguments for why this situation is not as obscure and unimportant as
> it looks.  Obscure aspects of Emacs use do not get to be described in
> the user manual, since the manual is not supposed to describe every
> command, variable, and function we have in Emacs, only those deemed
> important enough.  For the rest, there are the doc string and Help
> commands that search those doc strings and help users find those
> symbols even though they are not in the manual.

More or less agreeing.

> For starters, I'd need to know about it, so I could understand what it
> tells me when it is present.  When it _is_ present, it's quite
> possible that some other mode-line information important to me will be
> pushed outside of the visible part.

Still disagreeing, but anyway.

Let's wait for Stefan's verdict on fix C.

Thanks.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.