From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rectangular regions Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 13:57:02 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87a9hq8h7p.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87ppql7iig.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383677865 16070 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2013 18:57:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 18:57:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bastien , Eli Zaretskii , dancol@dancol.org, sdl.web@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: jemarch@gnu.org (Jose E. Marchesi) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 05 19:57:48 2013 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 1Vdlow-00014x-5F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 19:57:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58004 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vdlov-0006tA-Pp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 13:57:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56139) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vdlol-0006sf-N0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 13:57:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vdloe-0004fm-CV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 13:57:35 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:61400) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdloG-0004a6-QM; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 13:57:04 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxLzd/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDYhCBrEfkA6RCgOIYZwZgV6DFQ X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxLzd/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDYhCBrEfkA6RCgOIYZwZgV6DFQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="37154323" Original-Received: from 69-196-188-221.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.188.221]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 05 Nov 2013 13:57:03 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0C80F60109; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 13:57:03 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87ppql7iig.fsf@gnu.org> (Jose E. Marchesi's message of "Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:05:27 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:164973 Archived-At: >> Why is everybody ignoring the "C-x SPC" suggestion? > I like it too, indeed. > Same here. A possible alternative would be to use a binding that's only active when the region is highlighted. So the way to use it would be C-SPC where rmmkey is the key bound to rectangle-mark-mode. Not sure which key would be appropriate, but restricting this use to the "active region case" opens up the possibility of choosing a key that's in common use, tho not when the region is active. A mnemonic key would be C-r, except that C-r already has a useful meaning when the region is active. Stefan