From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fixing rectangle operations
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:51:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mzj22tlr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u4q5a3e04.fsf@gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:28:59 +0100")
>>> 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.
Clearly both behaviors make sense.
If that really matters, we could provide the Vim behavior via C-u prefix or
via another command.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-15 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-15 4:41 Fixing rectangle operations Herbert Euler
2005-12-15 5:02 ` Herbert Euler
2005-12-15 7:21 ` Miles Bader
2005-12-15 9:28 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-12-15 16:51 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-12-15 20:23 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-15 23:19 ` Johan Bockgård
2005-12-16 2:08 ` Herbert Euler
2005-12-16 13:14 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-12-16 18:20 ` Herbert Euler
2005-12-19 10:09 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-12-19 2:24 ` Giorgos Keramidas
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