Subject: Re: bug#9666: 24.0.50; C-d has unexpected behaviour in CUA rectangle mode

From: Stephen Berman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:43:30 +0200

On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:30:29 +0200 Stefan Reichör <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Just activate cua mode, select an rectangle and hit DEL or C-d:
> M-x cua-mode
> C-RET
> select rectangle
> DEL
>
> I expect this command to delete the whole rectangle
>
> But it deletes only one character and deactivates the marked
> rectangle
[...]
> In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2011-09-12 on 3249CTO
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.5) --no-opt'

I see somewhat different behavior with the above recipe: DEL (backspace
key), deletes the one-column rectangle immediately following the
selected rectangle, and does not deactivate (unhighlight) the latter;
C-d, on the other hand, does delete the selected rectangle.  This is on
GNU Emacs 24.0.90.3 (i686-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.1) of
2011-10-04 on escher.

Steve Berman