GNU bug report logs - #67925
29.1; delete-rectangle fails on multi-column characters

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: awrhygty <at> outlook.com

Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #38 received at 67925 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 67925 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
 awrhygty <at> outlook.com
Subject: Re: bug#67925: 29.1; delete-rectangle fails on multi-column characters
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 20:07:38 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  awrhygty <at> outlook.com,  Stefan Kangas
>  <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>,  67925 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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).
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