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From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Ivan Kalyaev <ivan.kalyaev@gmail.com>, 16403@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16403: 24.3.50; Rectangular selection visually disturbing
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:10:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52CF105B.5090005@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ4zm2DRsHrJxj0hu1V=bUxWBBNDmmZMi33=gBDjQn1cRVXLiA@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/09/2014 02:15 AM, Ivan Kalyaev wrote:
> When I press <C-x SPS> to start vertical selection lines of text shift to the
> right because empty selection is represented with a line symbol.
>
> It looked like font rendering glitch at first. The jerky motion is disturbing.
>
> How do you think the visual experience could be made better?
>
> For comparison, vim selects the starting character right away.

I usually use Emacs in a window system. In a tty, yes, this behavior 
looks bad. We should do something about it.





  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-09 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-09 10:15 bug#16403: 24.3.50; Rectangular selection visually disturbing Ivan Kalyaev
2014-01-09 21:10 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2014-01-10 11:28   ` Ivan Kalyaev
2014-01-10 19:58   ` Bastien
2014-01-10 20:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 20:20       ` Bastien
2014-01-10 23:57         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-11 10:02           ` Bastien
2014-01-12 20:03             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 22:26               ` Bastien
2014-01-13  4:00                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-13 10:57                 ` Bastien
2016-08-09  1:45                   ` npostavs
2016-09-02  3:09                     ` npostavs

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