From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: keymap in yank-excluded-properties Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 22:46:49 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20020822.173129.01368056.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> <200208250525.g7P5PfH11882@wijiji.santafe.edu> <5x3ct2y2nr.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <20020830.124308.81460907.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> <5xelcc3054.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031194127 21371 127.0.0.1 (5 Sep 2002 02:48:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 02:48:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mmhK-0005YZ-00 for ; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 04:48:46 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17mnGo-0001YZ-00 for ; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 05:25:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mmiv-0004l2-00; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 22:50:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17mmfW-0003XG-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 22:46:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17mmfS-0003VJ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 22:46:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mmfS-0003VC-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 22:46:50 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 17mmfR-00078U-00; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 22:46:49 -0400 Original-To: miles@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (message from Miles Bader on 04 Sep 2002 10:11:10 +0900) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:7499 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7499 It would be great if this could be used to make the whole rectangle system less wierd. E.g., cut onto the normal kill-ring, and use a `yank-function' property to properly deal with yanking them. This could be a good thing, especially if we make register commands handle `yank-function' also. It would be nice to have a special `rectangle-mode' which would make _all_ the normal kill/copy commands such as C-w and M-w deal in `rectangles' (and use a highlighting hack to make an active region really look like a rectangle). I don't think this makes sense as a mode. I think that operating on a rectangle is something that many users want to do once in a while, not something certain users want to do all the time or that you always want in certain files. Maybe it could be a temporary mode activated when you gave a special `set-rectangle-mark' command. That interface could be a good one for rectangles.