bug#46206: 24.3; rectangle kill not working properly

bug#46206: 24.3; rectangle kill not working properly

[SomeGuy]

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.

r



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bug#46206: 24.3; rectangle kill not working properly

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

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.

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bug#46206: 24.3; rectangle kill not working properly

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> 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).

More information was requested, but no response was given within a
month, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the problem still exists,
please respond to this email and we'll reopen the bug report.

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