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: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 06:45:04 +0000 Message-ID: References: <21c81ecf-75d7-47d7-9b10-d2050769f6e3@default> <87d05139k3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87d050s2sq.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30033"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (NEB 202 2017-01-01) Cc: 42307@debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 13 08:46:10 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 1jusE6-0007hW-7U for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 08:46:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47978 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jusE4-0002SH-PU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 02:46:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49626) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jusDy-0002S9-IZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 02:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:35874) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jusDy-00025N-97 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 02:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jusDy-0001Va-79 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 02:46:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Gregory Heytings Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 06:46:02 +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=B42307.15946227105707 (code B ref 42307); Mon, 13 Jul 2020 06:46:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 42307) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Jul 2020 06:45:10 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47420 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jusD8-0001Tz-9Z for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 02:45:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:51245) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jusD7-0001To-0d for 42307@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 02:45:09 -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 06D6j6gE011869 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Mon, 13 Jul 2020 06:45:07 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 06D6j6pm027015; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 06:45:06 GMT In-Reply-To: <87d050s2sq.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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:182964 Archived-At: > > This is exactly what I meant. I only asked if it should look like the > highlighting created by rectangle selection mode where the beginning of > the overlay is under point and its left border goes down on the same > column to the last line of the overlay. > > More generally the question is: what rules define the column of the left > vertical border and its right border? > Did you actually read anything of the above, or did you only read the title? I explained what the rules are, and gave two visual examples to illustrate the rules. Gregory