From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: string-rectangle provides on-the-fly preview, undesirably Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 17:31:41 -0600 Message-ID: <20170702171622754791707@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499038368 17513 195.159.176.226 (2 Jul 2017 23:32:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 23:32:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 03 01:32:44 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dRoM7-0004IE-Tj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 01:32:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59548 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRoMD-0004Fg-35 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2017 19:32:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56037) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRoLD-0004Ej-IE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2017 19:31:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRoL8-0005fD-MX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2017 19:31:47 -0400 Original-Received: from havoc.proulx.com ([96.88.95.61]:55695) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRoL8-0005eZ-Gl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2017 19:31:42 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by havoc.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB89A9D for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2017 17:31:41 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB8F3217E3 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2017 17:31:41 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8CB202DC5E; Sun, 2 Jul 2017 17:31:41 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 96.88.95.61 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113647 Archived-At: The command C-x r t string-rectangle in version 24 and previously would "Replace rectangle contents with STRING on each line (=E2=80=98string-rectangle=E2=80=99)." The same happens in version 25 bu= t differently. In version 25 the change is displayed incrementally character by character as you type. With a large displayed rectangle this can cause a lot of dynamic "flicker" as every character on the display is moved. This is driving me crazy. Is there a way to return to the previous version 24 behavior? Thanks, Bob P.S. The NEWS file says: *** 'string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result.