From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:44:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mxhwcgvn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y61g195p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 19:26:58 +0200
>
> However, there is no reason that straight visual movement when using
> shift-selection would interfere with selection as such: you just can't
> expect that the marked region is visually contiguous. The size of the
> selection will jump when crossing visually from L2R and R2L.
>
> But I see no logical problem with that.
The problems with this are not logical, they are with implementing it
(both the movement itself and the resulting selection and highlight).
Patches are welcome.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-05 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-27 20:40 `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why? Drew Adams
2011-05-27 20:48 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-05-27 21:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-27 22:08 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-28 0:19 ` Nix
2011-05-27 21:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-27 21:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-27 22:08 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-27 22:23 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-27 23:19 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-28 0:46 ` Mohsen BANAN
2011-05-28 1:53 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-28 2:24 ` Mohsen BANAN
2011-05-28 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-27 23:09 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-05-27 23:23 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-28 0:25 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-05-28 0:39 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-28 6:57 ` David Kastrup
2011-05-28 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-28 0:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-28 1:54 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-28 7:07 ` David Kastrup
2011-05-28 8:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-30 3:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-31 14:18 ` Davis Herring
2011-05-31 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-01 11:48 ` Andy Moreton
2011-06-01 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-01 23:26 ` Andy Moreton
2011-06-02 4:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 10:38 ` Andy Moreton
2011-06-02 11:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 12:59 ` Andy Moreton
2011-06-02 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 16:23 ` Andy Moreton
2011-06-02 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 21:42 ` Andy Moreton
2011-06-03 7:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 17:09 ` David Kastrup
2011-06-02 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-03 14:35 ` David Kastrup
2011-06-03 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-03 15:14 ` David Kastrup
2011-06-03 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-03 20:56 ` David Kastrup
2011-06-04 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-05 16:51 ` Ehud Karni
2011-06-05 17:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-05 17:19 ` Ehud Karni
2011-06-05 17:26 ` David Kastrup
2011-06-05 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-06-05 18:26 ` David Kastrup
2011-06-05 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-07 8:51 ` David Kastrup
2011-06-07 10:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 15:35 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-06-02 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 19:29 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-06-02 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-03 0:47 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-06-03 7:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-05 11:27 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-06-05 13:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 7:23 ` David Kastrup
2011-06-02 8:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
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