From: joakim@verona.se
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Marking squares
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 09:26:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k3qr5dfi.fsf@chopper.vpn.verona.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3boc3fn34.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 02 Feb 2013 03:47:59 +0100")
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> I'm contemplating implementing a very, very simple image editor in
> Emacs, which would mainly just allow image cropping. To do that, it
> would be nice if `mouse-drag-region' would allow highlighting a "box"
> instead of the lines between mark and the mouse position.
>
> So my question is -- does Emacs have an option of highlighting
> rectangles instead of "the region"? It might be useful when using
> commands like `C-x r k', too, perhaps.
>
> I've looked at the code, but I can't find anything obvious
> immediately...
I'm not sure if it's relevant but heres my approach:
https://github.com/jave/dragbox
You view the image wrapped in SVG. Then you can mark a region, drawn
with a svg rectangle, using the mouse. Then you can use the region for
whatever purpose. I use it to select regions for OCR.
--
Joakim Verona
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-02 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-02 2:47 Marking squares Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-02-02 3:06 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-02-02 8:08 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-02-02 8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-02 10:02 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-02-02 7:06 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-02-02 8:26 ` joakim [this message]
2013-02-02 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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