From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: SomeGuy <tronjet66@hotmail.com>
Cc: 46206@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46206: 24.3; rectangle kill not working properly
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 10:17:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bld4qh9g.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vxisft2hslxf.fsf@lab1-12.eng.utah.edu> (SomeGuy's message of "Sat, 30 Jan 2021 22:41:16 -0700")
SomeGuy <tronjet66@hotmail.com> writes:
> When I attempt to kill a rectangle that spans multiple lines, the kill
> is not getting everything and yank makes it worse, as this yank usually
> does not go to the right place and typically overwrites other text.
It's not quite clear what you mean here -- do you have a recipe to
reproduce this problem, starting from "emacs -Q"?
I tried
M-<space>
moved point around
C-x r k
C-x r y
and things worked as expected (in emacs-26, which is the oldest Emacs I
have here).
> In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30)
Emacs 24.3 is very old, though.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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2021-01-31 5:41 bug#46206: 24.3; rectangle kill not working properly SomeGuy
2021-02-01 9:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-03-01 15:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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