From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: 15796@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15796: 24.3.50; rectangle-mark: Display issues in presence of TABs
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 09:01:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbo20mfsm.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bo20psis.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Mon, 04 Nov 2013 12:23:15 +0530")
> With the selection in that state, move the cursor right or left by one
> character. The text or rather the display moves. It is disconcerting
> to see the movement. I count this as a bug. WDYT...
In order to *display* the zero-width rectangle, I have to add
a (display-only) thin space, which does shift the rest of the text by
a few pixels.
We could make it customizable: either you see the zero-width rectangle
and you live with the corresponding "display moves", or you don't see
the zero-width rectangle.
Of course, there might be other ways to represent the rectangle that
don't suffer from this problem (e.g. only highlight the position of the
mark, but not the line between the mark and point). If the display
engine offered a way to overlay (rather than insert) glyphs/graphics, we
would have more options.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-04 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-03 2:41 bug#15796: 24.3.50; rectangle-mark: Display issues in presence of TABs Jambunathan K
2013-11-04 3:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-04 6:53 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-04 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-11-04 14:30 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-04 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier
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