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

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Message #8 received at 8130 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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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