From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fixing rectangle operations Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:28:59 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134650916 1255 80.91.229.2 (15 Dec 2005 12:48:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:48:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 15 13:48:32 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmsVm-0007xC-Pw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:47:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmsWP-0006RC-Fj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:47:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EmpSl-0000oe-A3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:31:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EmpSc-0000oA-PL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:31:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmpSX-0000nx-0G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:31:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1EmpUk-0002S9-HD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:33:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EmpPt-0001xW-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:28:49 +0100 Original-Received: from user.ifsab.se ([193.41.170.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:28:49 +0100 Original-Received: from brakjoller by user.ifsab.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:28:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: user.ifsab.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nWY7gLh4uKDHVGqDSgKQt5YKDx8= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:47783 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > "Herbert Euler" writes: >> The point is before 'long' in the first line. Vim documents >> that if one want to insert 'very ' before these two 'long's, >> it will ignore the short line. Hence the result is: >> >> This is a very long line >> short >> Any other very long line > > I dunno, vim's behavior seems kind of bizarre to me. > > Treating all lines as implicitly "blank extended" in rectangle > operations seems much more natural (and _not_ doing so likely to cause a > lot of user confusion). I agree. I can see the problem with Emacs doing what it does, but that feels more natural. At least in the situations I use C-x r t I have never seen this as a problem.