From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 67925@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, awrhygty@outlook.com
Subject: bug#67925: 29.1; delete-rectangle fails on multi-column characters
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 06:52:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkwY_L3Mb74WaQNyJQ5Jep+guku7wSykVZYsuOvbrY+9Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86zfy0rohh.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
>>> OTOH, with monospaced fonts LibreOffice selects such Block Area
>>> on the reported text:
>>>
>>> and DEL deletes the selected text. So maybe Emacs should do the same.
>>
>> The patch I posted in
>>
>> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=67925#8
>>
>> is supposed to do precisely that (and does it at least in this simple
>> example).
>
> I confirm this, so probably it's impossible to do anything better than that.
Doing as well as LibreOffice is probably already not bad.
Perhaps we should add a comment pointing to this discussion, to explain
why we have chosen this particular heuristic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-24 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-20 10:58 bug#67925: 29.1; delete-rectangle fails on multi-column characters awrhygty
2023-12-20 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-21 7:30 ` awrhygty
2023-12-21 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-21 14:26 ` awrhygty
2023-12-21 16:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-21 21:12 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-12-22 7:56 ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-22 11:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-22 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-12-23 17:30 ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-23 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-24 8:31 ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-24 14:52 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2023-12-28 9:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-03 19:00 ` awrhygty
2024-01-03 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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