From: Gregory Heytings via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 42307@debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Subject: bug#42307: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 08:21:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2007121008500394.27799@sdf.lonestar.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c53d7725-e4cf-4965-9163-55762717552b@default>
>
>> How this highlighting is different from the rectangle selection mode
>> activated by 'C-x SPC'?
>
> I'm not the OP, but I think the point is to provide different behaviors
> for overlays, just as we now have the original behavior (rebaptized as
> :extend) and the new behavior that doesn't extend.
>
> It's not about text selection or defining the region. It's about overlay
> properties. That's my understanding, anyway.
>
Your understanding is correct, the point is not to create a new selection
mode (they all exist as far as I can see) but a new overlay behavior, with
a face attribute.
Gregory
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2020-07-10 8:24 bug#42307: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-07-10 14:56 ` Drew Adams
2020-07-10 15:24 ` Drew Adams
2020-07-10 16:02 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-07-10 16:42 ` Drew Adams
2020-07-10 18:57 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-07-10 21:26 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-07-11 23:50 ` Juri Linkov
2020-07-12 1:25 ` Drew Adams
2020-07-12 8:21 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2020-07-12 23:59 ` Juri Linkov
2020-07-13 6:45 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2020-07-08 17:19 bug#42347: " Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-07-14 2:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-14 7:38 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-07-14 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-14 15:45 ` bug#42307: " Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-07-14 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-14 17:01 ` bug#42307: " Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-07-14 17:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-14 17:20 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-07-14 4:23 ` bug#42347: " Drew Adams
2020-07-14 7:49 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-07-14 14:48 ` Drew Adams
2020-07-14 15:53 ` bug#42307: " Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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