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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Marking squares
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:37:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lib7az7v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130202110644.651ac6e28b71fb7d1ec3fa66@gmail.com>

> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 11:06:44 +0800
> From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Sat, 02 Feb 2013 03:47:59 +0100
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> 
> > So my question is -- does Emacs have an option of highlighting
> > rectangles instead of "the region"?  It might be useful when using
> > commands like `C-x r k', too, perhaps.
> 
>    CUA mode provides enhanced rectangle support with visible rectangle
> highlighting.

If you look at CUA Rectangle mode code, you will see that it has
nothing to do with highlighting.  It creates an _illusion_ of
highlighting by placing overlays at some portions of text, and moving
those overlays as mouse or point move.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-02  8:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-02  2:47 Marking squares Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-02-02  3:06 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-02-02  8:08   ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-02-02  8:37   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-02-02 10:02     ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-02-02  7:06 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-02-02  8:26 ` joakim
2013-02-02  8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii

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