From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Design of commands operating on rectangular regions Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:19:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <97dbb9ad-078f-491b-8d9e-0ab7fdbffa5c@default> References: <5625B166.3080104@dancol.org> <86zizdczhp.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <871tc315y3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83k2pvqg0l.fsf@gnu.org> <837fluqkd1.fsf@gnu.org> <87oaf1s82r.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <876116ucdm.fsf_-_@mail.linkov.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448047233 2989 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2015 19:20:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 19:20:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley , Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 20 20:20:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzrEG-0006pG-LM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 20:20:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49463 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzrEF-0001jz-UV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:20:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45453) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzrE2-0001iu-TU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:20:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzrDz-0004co-PU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:20:02 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:46651) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzrDz-0004cb-IV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:19:59 -0500 Original-Received: from aserv0021.oracle.com (aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id tAKJJvMV015025 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 20 Nov 2015 19:19:58 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0122.oracle.com (aserv0122.oracle.com [141.146.126.236]) by aserv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tAKJJvk8004952 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Fri, 20 Nov 2015 19:19:57 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0015.oracle.com (abhmp0015.oracle.com [141.146.116.21]) by aserv0122.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tAKJJvXf012070; Fri, 20 Nov 2015 19:19:57 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:194886 Archived-At: In order to follow all of this, especially since you now seem to be talking about user-level changes, could someone please specify (describe) the non-contiguous region feature, including how users can create and modify such a region interactively? That would be really helpful, for me at least. And could you specify clearly the relation between this non-contiguous region feature and rectangles? Presumably the former is more general but also allows some handling of rectangles (?). It sounds like there has been a fair amount of implementation already, without really any discussion of the design and how users are affected (interactive behavior - wherever). But let me know if I'm mistaken and am jumping the gun, here.