GNU bug report logs - #72830
Big rectangular selections are slow

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 72830 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: bug#72830: Big rectangular selections are slow
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 23:05:22 -0400

> - `select-active-regions`: as mentioned, it slows down rectangle selection
> massively and is alien to non-X11 platforms so I'd suggest it be set to nil
> by default on macOS and Windows at least.

I think we should first try and make it not-slow, by making it lazy.


        Stefan
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