From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#18793: 24.4; zero width rectangular selection displaces text Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 12:26:23 +0200 Message-ID: <87czgrnei8.fsf@gnus.org> References: <82ppdk41k5.fsf@gmail.com> <87fslop1af.fsf@gnus.org> <837d702b1w.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="27401"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: carlosjosepita@gmail.com, Stefan Monnier , 18793@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 06 12:27:37 2022 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 1nmvBR-0006zW-Ig for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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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. Yes. Various things were suggested in the bug report, like a new facility to draw a vertical line through a character, for instance, to allow indicating stuff like this without the (very slightly) disturbing horizontal shift. I think that sounds like a good idea (and I could see it being useful in general -- for instance, with a mode that indicates the fill column, perhaps). It doesn't sound very complicated to implement -- a new text/overlay property, I guess? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no