From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#27974: 25.2; string-rectangle on-the-fly preview bad Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 13:56:21 -0600 Message-ID: <87wp6hyeje.fsf@hysteria.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 1501963036 15442 195.159.176.226 (5 Aug 2017 19:57:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 19:57:16 +0000 (UTC) To: 27974@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 05 21:57:10 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1de5C7-0003XN-Mn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 21:57:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de5CD-0007Hn-TV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sat, 05 Aug 2017 15:56:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de5BP-0001Ka-F1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 15:56:26 -0400 Original-Received: from havoc.proulx.com ([96.88.95.61]:44352) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de5BP-0001KK-6R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 15:56:23 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by havoc.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F1E11C4 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2017 13:56:22 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37297217DF for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2017 13:56:22 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0F6052DC5B; Sat, 5 Aug 2017 13:56:21 -0600 (MDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:135447 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 but differently. In version 25 the change is displayed incrementally character by character as you type as a dynamic preview. 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 raised this issue on help-gnu-emacs. I and at least one other person thinks this preview feature should be optional even if it is the default. I think it is a pretty radical change however and would wish it were not the default. But at the least it needs to be possible to disable the dynamic preview. I really hate this feature. Thanks, Bob P.S. The NEWS file says: *** 'string-rectangle' provides on-the-fly preview of the result. 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