From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#42307: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 08:21:04 +0000 Message-ID: References: <21c81ecf-75d7-47d7-9b10-d2050769f6e3@default> <87d05139k3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32362"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (NEB 202 2017-01-01) Cc: 42307@debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 12 10:22:12 2020 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 1juXFU-0008Kz-1u for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2020 10:22:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57176 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1juXFS-0002FF-Gu for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2020 04:22:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54294) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1juXFL-0002Et-ON for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2020 04:22:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:33821) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1juXFL-0003tg-Fj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2020 04:22:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1juXFK-0004HL-BL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2020 04:22:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Gregory Heytings Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 08:22:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 42307 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 42307-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B42307.159454207216389 (code B ref 42307); Sun, 12 Jul 2020 08:22:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 42307) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Jul 2020 08:21:12 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45367 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1juXEW-0004GH-Fg for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2020 04:21:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:55813) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1juXEU-0004G6-34 for 42307@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2020 04:21:11 -0400 Original-Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:ghe@faeroes.freeshell.org [205.166.94.9]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 06C8L74p004197 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Sun, 12 Jul 2020 08:21:08 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 06C8L7v6024304; Sun, 12 Jul 2020 08:21:07 GMT In-Reply-To: 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:182939 Archived-At: > >> 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