From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
To: 27974@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27974: 25.2; string-rectangle on-the-fly preview bad
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 13:56:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wp6hyeje.fsf@hysteria.proulx.com> (raw)
The command C-x r t string-rectangle in version 24 and previously
would "Replace rectangle contents with STRING on each line
(‘string-rectangle’)." The same happens in version 25 but
differently. In version 25 the change is displayed incrementally
character by character as you type as a dynamic preview. With a large
displayed rectangle this can cause a lot of dynamic "flicker" as every
character on the display is moved. This is driving me crazy.
I raised this issue on help-gnu-emacs. I and at least one other person
thinks this preview feature should be optional even if it is the
default. I think it is a pretty radical change however and would wish
it were not the default. But at the least it needs to be possible to
disable the dynamic preview. I really hate this feature.
Thanks,
Bob
P.S. The NEWS file says:
*** 'string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result.
In GNU Emacs 25.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2017-07-31, modified by Debian built on trouble
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid)
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next reply other threads:[~2017-08-05 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-05 19:56 Bob Proulx [this message]
2017-08-05 20:27 ` bug#27974: 25.2; string-rectangle on-the-fly preview bad Mark Oteiza
[not found] ` <handler.27974.B.15019629994623.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2017-08-05 21:11 ` bug#27974: Acknowledgement (25.2; string-rectangle on-the-fly preview bad) Bob Proulx
2017-10-16 2:05 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-16 2:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-16 2:54 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-16 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-17 0:14 ` Noam Postavsky
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