From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#67925: 29.1; delete-rectangle fails on multi-column characters Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 06:52:13 -0800 Message-ID: References: <83il4tge2z.fsf@gnu.org> <831qbggd50.fsf@gnu.org> <83r0jffqql.fsf@gnu.org> <86bkai64a3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <86a5q0j084.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83le9kdc7p.fsf@gnu.org> <86zfy0rohh.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8891"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 67925@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, awrhygty@outlook.com To: Juri Linkov , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 24 15:53:07 2023 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 1rHPql-000299-CN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Sun, 24 Dec 2023 06:52:13 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Sun, 24 Dec 2023 06:52:13 -0800 In-Reply-To: <86zfy0rohh.fsf@mail.linkov.net> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:276811 Archived-At: Juri Linkov writes: >>> OTOH, with monospaced fonts LibreOffice selects such Block Area >>> on the reported text: >>> >>> and DEL deletes the selected text. So maybe Emacs should do the same. >> >> The patch I posted in >> >> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=67925#8 >> >> is supposed to do precisely that (and does it at least in this simple >> example). > > I confirm this, so probably it's impossible to do anything better than that. Doing as well as LibreOffice is probably already not bad. Perhaps we should add a comment pointing to this discussion, to explain why we have chosen this particular heuristic.