From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: ivan.kalyaev@gmail.com, 16403@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16403: 24.3.50; Rectangular selection visually disturbing
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:03:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvha99yo6p.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eh4erg32.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (Bastien's message of "Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:02:57 +0100")
>>> I'll will wait for other maintainers to give feedback and apply
>>> this on monday if it's good.
>> It's probably fine for ttys, indeed, but it doesn't solve the problem
>> for GUI frames.
> I thought the behavior in GUI frames was acceptable,
This OP's use-case is a GUI frame. Daniel pointed out that it's even
worse under ttys.
> Maybe in GUI the visual hint could be a change in the cursor
> shape? E.g. from box to vbar.
The intention is not just to warn the user that we're in rectangle mode,
but to actually show the boundaries of the 0-width rectangle.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-12 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-09 10:15 bug#16403: 24.3.50; Rectangular selection visually disturbing Ivan Kalyaev
2014-01-09 21:10 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-10 11:28 ` Ivan Kalyaev
2014-01-10 19:58 ` Bastien
2014-01-10 20:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 20:20 ` Bastien
2014-01-10 23:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-11 10:02 ` Bastien
2014-01-12 20:03 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-01-12 22:26 ` Bastien
2014-01-13 4:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-13 10:57 ` Bastien
2016-08-09 1:45 ` npostavs
2016-09-02 3:09 ` npostavs
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