From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Free cursor movement beyond the end of line Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 21:27:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2871cce1-65e5-45ad-b618-7a5682112170@googlegroups.com> <83in7ql0ul.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526347577 2034 195.159.176.226 (15 May 2018 01:26:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 01:26:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 15 03:26:13 2018 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 1fIOjC-0000LW-Hc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 May 2018 03:26:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59804 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fIOlJ-0002Ro-Ki for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2018 21:28:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57998) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fIOka-0002Qc-Pf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2018 21:27:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fIOkW-0000oX-DZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2018 21:27:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=51547 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fIOkW-0000gc-68 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2018 21:27:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fIOiL-0007t8-He for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2018 03:25:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:U7TBM+jonDYwiShkeelHMg2vt00= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:116737 Archived-At: >> > I recently discovered rectangle-mode -- maybe it does what you want. >> Indeed, rectangle-mode has some code that does something related, but it >> only handles the part of *displaying* the cursor where there's no actual >> text, it doesn't try to let you then insert text at that position. > cua-rectangle-mark-mode does, AFAIR. It offers some more ad-hoc commands than rectangle-mark-mode, but it basically suffers from the same problem: it doesn't let you run "any command" at "any position", contrary to quarter-plane-mode. Stefan