From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>, 50403@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50403: 27.2; calc-grab-region should check rectangle-mark-mode
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 12:56:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuiyezv8.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6839EF97-CF44-4456-8FFF-F696E38B91F6@acm.org> ("Mattias Engdegård"'s message of "Mon, 6 Sep 2021 11:37:18 +0200")
Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:
> 6 sep. 2021 kl. 11.19 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
>
>> I think that sounds reasonable, but I don't use calc much myself. I've
>> added Mattias to the CCs; perhaps he has an opinion here.
>
> Only that he agrees with the previous speakers!
OK; I've now pushed this change to Emacs 28.
> For that matter, in an ideal world the Emacs region/selection would be:
>
> (1) independent of point and mark
> (2) of arbitrary shape (linear, rectangular, possibly discontiguous)
> (3) represented by an abstract object type in Lisp
>
> and all operations on the region should be able to cope with any
> shape, with useful behaviour for special cases.
Indeed. It's a bit ad hoc currently.
--
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-05 16:24 bug#50403: 27.2; calc-grab-region should check rectangle-mark-mode Howard Melman
2021-09-06 9:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-06 9:37 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-09-06 10:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-09-06 11:22 ` Mattias Engdegård
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