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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Free cursor movement beyond the end of line
Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 21:27:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4lj990gn.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83in7ql0ul.fsf@gnu.org

>> > I recently discovered rectangle-mode -- maybe it does what you want.
>> Indeed, rectangle-mode has some code that does something related, but it
>> only handles the part of *displaying* the cursor where there's no actual
>> text, it doesn't try to let you then insert text at that position.
> cua-rectangle-mark-mode does, AFAIR.

It offers some more ad-hoc commands than rectangle-mark-mode, but it
basically suffers from the same problem: it doesn't let you run "any
command" at "any position", contrary to quarter-plane-mode.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-15  1:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-14  6:32 Free cursor movement beyond the end of line yegupov
2018-05-14  8:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-14  8:16 ` Daniel Herzig
2018-05-14 12:52   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-14 15:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-15  1:27       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-05-14 16:31 ` yegupov
2018-05-17 14:50   ` Stefan Monnier

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