From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#27974: Acknowledgement (25.2; string-rectangle on-the-fly preview bad) Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 15:11:03 -0600 Message-ID: <20170805150035534719984@bob.proulx.com> References: <87wp6hyeje.fsf@hysteria.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501967574 30619 195.159.176.226 (5 Aug 2017 21:12:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 21:12:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) To: 27974@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 05 23:12:50 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1de6NG-0007Hv-Ew for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 23:12:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58794 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de6NM-0000vE-PX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 17:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41056) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de6Mg-0000VE-28 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 17:12:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de6Mc-0005Av-SE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 17:12:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:41104) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de6Mc-0005Ao-PY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 17:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1de6Mc-00032z-CU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 17:12:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Bob Proulx Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 21:12:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 27974 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 27974-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B27974.150196747211652 (code B ref 27974); Sat, 05 Aug 2017 21:12:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 27974) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Aug 2017 21:11:12 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43779 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1de6Lo-00031r-5p for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 17:11:12 -0400 Original-Received: from havoc.proulx.com ([96.88.95.61]:59142) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1de6Lm-00031a-14; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 17:11:10 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by havoc.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D731214; Sat, 5 Aug 2017 15:11:04 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0518C217DF; Sat, 5 Aug 2017 15:11:04 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F0E132DC5B; Sat, 5 Aug 2017 15:11:03 -0600 (MDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:135455 Archived-At: tags 27974 + patch thanks Filing this ticket generated more discussion and I was informed that rectangle-preview variable controls this feature. Yes! This is what I needed to know. I really must ask, is this really a good change? It is extremely annoying behavior. ;; Disable nasty on-the-fly preview from string-rectangle. (setq rectangle-preview nil) However this bug ticket is still relevant because this information should be provided in the NEWS (and perhaps Antinews) pages. Let me suggest the following addition to the NEWS file. *** 'string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result. +This is controlled by the rectangle-preview variable. Defaults to t. +Set (setq rectangle-preview nil) if you want the previous behavior. Please consider this patch. Thanks. Bob