From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: 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: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 20:42:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h9yw80hg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvegu0xbhr.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:29:30 -0400
> Cc: 18793@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> FWIW, I think the better option is to provide a way to draw a thin line
> that does not shift the rest of the text.
You could change the cursor to a vertical bar, and change its color to
match the color of the region.
Another possibility is to make a composition of the character at point
and some zero-width character (which we display as a thin space). The
display engine already supports compositions, so the only problem is
to create one that will look "right", and solve the color issue in
some reasonable way.
Yet another possibility is to have a new cursor type that would
display a small portion of the block in another color. This does
require changes to C code, but they are relatively simple and
straightforward.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-22 17:42 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 [this message]
2014-10-23 0:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-05 13:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-05 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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