From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: carlosjosepita@gmail.com, 18793@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18793: 24.4; zero width rectangular selection displaces text
Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 19:34:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837d702b1w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fslop1af.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 05 May 2022 15:16:40 +0200)
> Cc: 18793@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 15:16:40 +0200
>
> Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 1) Put the point at the beginning of the following sequence of a's.
> > 2) Start a rectangular selection with C-x Space.
> > 3) Move the point one char to the right.
> > 4) Move it one char to the left so that it returns to the left margin.
> > 5) Repeat 3 and 4 a number of times.
> >
> > aaaaaaaaaaa
> >
> > Do you see how the sequences of a's moves back and forward?
>
> I can confirm that this behaviour is still present in Emacs 29.
AFAIU, that's a feature: we are trying to indicate the existence of
the selection, even though its width is zero. Type "M-x
describe-text-properties RET" at the first character. The indication
must take up some space on display, so it moves the following text to
the right.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-05 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-22 14:32 bug#18793: 24.4; zero width rectangular selection displaces text Carlos Pita
2014-10-22 17:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-22 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-23 0:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-05 13:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-05 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-05-05 17:51 ` Drew Adams
2022-05-06 10:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-06 10:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-06 11:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-06 11:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-06 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-06 11:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-06 11:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-06 12:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-06 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-07 10:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-07 10:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-07 10:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-07 10:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-06 14:50 ` Drew Adams
2022-06-02 19:19 ` Rudolf Adamkovič via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-03 0:30 ` Drew Adams
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