From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: Ivan Kalyaev <ivan.kalyaev@gmail.com>, 16403@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16403: 24.3.50; Rectangular selection visually disturbing
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 20:58:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sisvehhy.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52CF105B.5090005@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:10:51 -0800")
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Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:
> On 01/09/2014 02:15 AM, Ivan Kalyaev wrote:
>> When I press <C-x SPS> to start vertical selection lines of text shift to the
>> right because empty selection is represented with a line symbol.
>>
>> It looked like font rendering glitch at first. The jerky motion is disturbing.
>>
>> How do you think the visual experience could be made better?
>>
>> For comparison, vim selects the starting character right away.
>
> I usually use Emacs in a window system. In a tty, yes, this behavior
> looks bad. We should do something about it.
I suggest these fixes (see patch attached):
- don't display an after-string overlay in tty;
- Let C-x SPC sends this message to the user:
"Mark active (rectangle mode)"
instead of just "Mark active"
Let me know what you think.
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diff --git a/lisp/rect.el b/lisp/rect.el
index f1f0b8d..3d890b5 100644
--- a/lisp/rect.el
+++ b/lisp/rect.el
@@ -444,7 +444,8 @@ Activates the region if needed. Only lasts until the region is deactivated."
(lambda () (rectangle-mark-mode -1)))
(unless (region-active-p)
(push-mark)
- (activate-mark))))
+ (activate-mark)
+ (message "Mark set (rectangle mode)"))))
(defun rectangle--extract-region (orig &optional delete)
(if (not rectangle-mark-mode)
@@ -553,10 +554,10 @@ Activates the region if needed. Only lasts until the region is deactivated."
(overlay-put ol 'after-string str))))
((overlay-get ol 'after-string)
(overlay-put ol 'after-string nil)))
- (when (= leftcol rightcol)
+ (when (and (= leftcol rightcol) (window-system))
;; Make zero-width rectangles visible!
- (overlay-put ol 'after-string
- (concat (propertize " "
+ (overlay-put ol 'after-string
+ (concat (propertize " "
'face '(region (:height 0.2)))
(overlay-get ol 'after-string))))
(push ol nrol)
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Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-10 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-09 10:15 bug#16403: 24.3.50; Rectangular selection visually disturbing Ivan Kalyaev
2014-01-09 21:10 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-10 11:28 ` Ivan Kalyaev
2014-01-10 19:58 ` Bastien [this message]
2014-01-10 20:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 20:20 ` Bastien
2014-01-10 23:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-11 10:02 ` Bastien
2014-01-12 20:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 22:26 ` Bastien
2014-01-13 4:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-13 10:57 ` Bastien
2016-08-09 1:45 ` npostavs
2016-09-02 3:09 ` npostavs
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