Re: CUA mode cursor color

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     I'd like cua-rect.el to be the default too :-)
> 
> Could you tell me what feature it provides?

- Rectangle highlighting

- rectangles are not confined to actual line lengths, e.g.
  if the buffer contains lines like this (X marks the position
  of the cursor

             aaaaaaaaa
            bbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
         cccccccccccc
              dddddX

  it is possible (straight-forward) to mark a rectangle like this
  (where the +'s marks the corners of the rectangle

           + aaaaaaaaa +
            bbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
         cccccccccccc
           +  dddddX   +

  i.e. the rectangle can be wider than the length of the line
  where the cursor is located (the lower right corner above).

- rectangles are killed, copied and yanked using C-w, M-w, and C-y.

- to upcase/lowercase a rectangle, use M-u/M-l

- to "open" or "close" a rectangle, use M-o/M-c

- M-r does replace-regexp in the rectangle

For more information, see the commentary in emulation/cua-base.el

To try it out, just enable CUA mode on the Options menu, and
mark a rectangle using S-RET.