GNU bug report logs - #8130
23.2; transient-rectangle-mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:14:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 23.2

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From: Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.2; transient-rectangle-mode
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:35:08 +0100

I would like to propose transient-rectangle-mode.  Working with
rectangles sometimes is a bit hard to understand what exactly the
boundaries of the rectangle are.

My idea was to give a slightly different face to the part of the
buffer which is highlighted by transient-mode and also in the current
rectangle.

There are other modes for rectangle selection (cua-selection-mode for
example) but they involve using a different key combination, while
with transient-rectangle-mode I would like to use the same selection
mechanism.

Thanks,
Andrea Crotti
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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 8130 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8130: 23.2; transient-rectangle-mode
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:30:26 -0500

> I would like to propose transient-rectangle-mode.  Working with
> rectangles sometimes is a bit hard to understand what exactly the
> boundaries of the rectangle are.

Yes, that would be good.  I think the best way to go about doing it is
to move the highlighting of the region to Elisp code.
One element to doing it would be to add a pre-redisplay-hook of some
sort which could update a "region overlay" (move its beg and end to
region-beginning and region-end), at which point it should be reasonably
easy to make the region appear any other way (e.g. as a rectangle or
a combination of the two as you suggest).


        Stefan
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