Re: Musings on creating an HTML-based WYSIWYG mode

[Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 5:44 PM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> > * Rectangle operations break pretty horribly. That is, they behave as
if no
> > line wrapping was in effect, acting on parts of the logical lines
defined
> > in terms of character offset from beginning of line.
> >
> > * Regular expression ^ and $ work in terms of logical lines, too.

> Yes, it's horrible, and I never use it.  :-)  Hopefully the WYSIWYG mode
> can aim higher than that.

Well, when/if you get to tables, rectangle operations could usefully
operate on ranges of table cells rather than character cells. ^ and $ could
mean start/end of paragraph, table cell, list item, or whichever
block-level element is around point.