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: string-rectangle provides on-the-fly preview, undesirably Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:37:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20170702171622754791707@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501965509 15737 195.159.176.226 (5 Aug 2017 20:38:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 20:38:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 05 22:38:25 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 1de5q2-0003nh-KS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 22:38:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58673 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de5q8-0004Ri-P7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:38:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32903) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de5pb-0004RX-ID for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:37:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de5pV-00024r-Ic for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:37:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=49446 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de5pV-00024b-C8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:37:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1de5pI-0001Vo-Qr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 22:37:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:0UJGlM5+NabQP1gO8P5tcvHSch8= 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:113940 Archived-At: > The command C-x r t string-rectangle in version 24 and previously > would "Replace rectangle contents with STRING on each line > (‘string-rectangle’)." The same happens in version 25 but > 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. I suggest you file a bug-report for it. We could/should limit the preview so it's only done on the visible portion of the text. > Is there a way to return to the previous version 24 behavior? Yes, the option is called (surprise surprise) `rectangle-preview`. Stefan