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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [WIP PATCH] Adding more keybindings to rectangle-mark-mode-map
Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 09:36:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANh=_JFTxAK4fwW-O36+S7z6uQXqYUUoSesnY4QwT3TMF227kQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lf8x6rtv.fsf@gnu.org>

On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 9:09 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> >
> > I interpreted that to mean that, if Edit -> Clear is only enabled
> > when there's an active region/rect, `backward-delete-char-untabify'
> > is equivalent to a hypothetical `delete-rect-or-region'.
>
> But Edit->Clear is enabled even when the region is not active, like if
> you turn off transient-mark-mode.

Ah. In that case, a new function might be safer, or even just leaving
it the way it is now. I don't have a strong opinion though, since I
don't use the menu-bar. I just happened to notice it while looking
into why `delete-region' didn't do what I thought it would when a rect
is selected.

- Jim



  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-02 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-01  5:23 [WIP PATCH] Adding more keybindings to rectangle-mark-mode-map Jim Porter
2021-05-01 13:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-01 16:02   ` Jim Porter
2021-05-01 17:20     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-01 22:31       ` Jim Porter
2021-05-02  6:57         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-02 15:48           ` Jim Porter
2021-05-02 16:09             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-02 16:36               ` Jim Porter [this message]
2021-05-02 18:07                 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-03  4:06                   ` Jim Porter
2021-05-03  7:55                     ` Andreas Schwab
2021-05-03 15:26                       ` Jim Porter
2021-05-08  1:52                         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-08  7:15                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-08  6:55                         ` Andreas Schwab
2021-05-08 18:57                           ` [PATCH] Improve docstring for delete-active-region (was Re: [WIP PATCH] Adding more keybindings to rectangle-mark-mode-map) Jim Porter
2021-06-18  3:09                             ` Jim Porter
2021-06-19 12:27                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-19 16:28                                 ` Jim Porter
2021-05-01 17:26     ` [WIP PATCH] Adding more keybindings to rectangle-mark-mode-map Ergus

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