From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: keymap in yank-excluded-properties Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 13:30:00 +0200 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031311831 5635 127.0.0.1 (6 Sep 2002 11:30:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:30:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.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 17nHJm-0001Sl-00 for ; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 13:30:30 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17nHtu-0005yf-00 for ; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 14:07:51 +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 17nHLO-0000qK-00; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 07:32:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17nHJQ-0000Hq-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 07:30:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17nHJM-0000DL-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 07:30:06 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17nHJL-0000By-00; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 07:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Charybdis.suse.de [213.95.15.201]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 882211479C; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:30:02 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: sykes.suse.de: schwab set sender to schwab@suse.de using -f Original-To: Miles Bader X-Yow: I'm having an EMOTIONAL OUTBURST!! But, uh, WHY is there a WAFFLE in my PAJAMA POCKET?? In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "06 Sep 2002 10:05:15 +0900") Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.3.50 (ia64-suse-linux) 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:7616 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7616 Miles Bader writes: |> "Robert J. Chassell" writes: |> > 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. |> > |> > It could be a `context specific minor mode', as proposed for table.el, |> > activated, perhaps, when you give a special `set-rectangle-mark' |> > command. |> |> That was what I meant. It would be a minor-mode that got turned on |> temporarily when you did `set-rectangle-mark', and presumably turned |> off when you do a C-w or hit C-g, or whatever (the minor-mode indicator |> would provide a hint that things were slightly different than normal). Sorta like transient-mark-mode. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."