From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#67925: 29.1; delete-rectangle fails on multi-column characters Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 10:31:06 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <86zfy0rohh.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <83il4tge2z.fsf@gnu.org> <831qbggd50.fsf@gnu.org> <83r0jffqql.fsf@gnu.org> <86bkai64a3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <86a5q0j084.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83le9kdc7p.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34406"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/30.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: 67925@debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, awrhygty@outlook.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 24 09:35:29 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rHJxJ-0008jY-Fi for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2023 09:35:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rHJwq-0001qC-SN; Sun, 24 Dec 2023 03:35:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rHJwn-0001ph-FM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2023 03:34:58 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:5::43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rHJwn-0005Vy-6e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2023 03:34:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1rHJws-0002ZH-Hf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2023 03:35:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 08:35:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 67925 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 67925-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B67925.17034068989858 (code B ref 67925); Sun, 24 Dec 2023 08:35:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 67925) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Dec 2023 08:34:58 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51677 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1rHJwo-0002Yt-1Q for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2023 03:34:58 -0500 Original-Received: from relay8-d.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:dc4:8::228]:50457) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1rHJwm-0002Yb-0m for 67925@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2023 03:34:56 -0500 Original-Received: by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 204CF1BF204; Sun, 24 Dec 2023 08:34:41 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <83le9kdc7p.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 23 Dec 2023 20:07:38 +0200") X-GND-Sasl: juri@linkov.net X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:276792 Archived-At: >> OTOH, with monospaced fonts LibreOffice selects such Block Area >> on the reported text: >> >> and DEL deletes the selected text. So maybe Emacs should do the same. > > The patch I posted in > > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=67925#8 > > is supposed to do precisely that (and does it at least in this simple > example). I confirm this, so probably it's impossible to do anything better than that.