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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 27974@debbugs.gnu.org, bob@proulx.com
Subject: bug#27974: Acknowledgement (25.2; string-rectangle on-the-fly preview bad)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 05:37:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834lqzhl7o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760bfj19t.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (message from Noam Postavsky on Sun, 15 Oct 2017 22:05:02 -0400)

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 22:05:02 -0400
> Cc: 27974@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I think it should also be documented in the docstring of
> string-rectangle:

I agree.

> +When called interactively and option `rectangle-preview' is
> +non-nil, the result is previewed as the string is entered in the
> +minibuffer.

Can you reword this to make less use of passive tense?

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-16  2:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-05 19:56 bug#27974: 25.2; string-rectangle on-the-fly preview bad Bob Proulx
2017-08-05 20:27 ` Mark Oteiza
     [not found] ` <handler.27974.B.15019629994623.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2017-08-05 21:11   ` bug#27974: Acknowledgement (25.2; string-rectangle on-the-fly preview bad) Bob Proulx
2017-10-16  2:05     ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-16  2:37       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-10-16  2:54         ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-16 14:27           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-17  0:14             ` Noam Postavsky

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