Subject: Re: bug#67925: 29.1; delete-rectangle fails on multi-column characters

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 20:07:38 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],  Stefan Kangas
>  <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 19:30:03 +0200
> 
> OTOH, with monospaced fonts LibreOffice selects such Block Area
> on the reported text:
> 
> 
> and DEL deletes the selected text.  So maybe Emacs should do the same.

The patch I posted in

  https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=67925#8

is supposed to do precisely that (and does it at least in this simple
example).