Re: [WIP PATCH] Adding more keybindings to rectangle-mark-mode-map

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 09:02:51AM -0700, Jim Porter wrote:
>> This said, I do think the way yanking rectangles works currently is not
>> fully satisfactory, because it's not always clear/intuitive how where
>> the rectangle will get inserted.  So maybe we do need a special yank
>> command active during `rectangle-mark-mode` which replaces the selected
>> rectangle with the yanked one, or something like that.
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>I agree. Once I tinkered with yanking rectangles a bit, it (mostly)
>made sense to me, but instinctively, I wanted to select the rect to
>yank into first. That works as you'd expect when the point is at the
>beginning of the rect but not when it's at the end. I'm not sure what
>I'd want to change though, since it works the same as yanking when you
>have a non-rectangular region selected too.
>
Yes please. The rectangular selection copy and yanking es very confusing
now. And it forces me to use the multi-cursor package too often and
recommend it to my students. In spite of it is unstable and have breaks
with undo and is incompatible with some commands.

So a good improvement in the rectangular selection could partially
replace some of the use cases we actually have for multi-cursor.

>- Jim
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