From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Free cursor movement beyond the end of line Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 08:52:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2871cce1-65e5-45ad-b618-7a5682112170@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526302267 27514 195.159.176.226 (14 May 2018 12:51:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 12:51:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 14 14:51:03 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1fICwR-00072u-ID for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2018 14:51:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35164 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fICyY-0000Ly-Pb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2018 08:53:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49005) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fICxv-0000KZ-DJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2018 08:52:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fICxq-0000Fm-JP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2018 08:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=35821 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fICxq-0000FM-CS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2018 08:52:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fICvg-00065P-NO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2018 14:50:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:yRHnHnwtf7GkTXE7KggfUvP2F/4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116730 Archived-At: >> There is popular text editors option "allow cursor movement end of line". >> It was implemented in many of text editors long time ago. >> >> But it seems that it's absent in emacs (yes, I tried set-goal-column, >> picture-mode, artist-mode). It's called quarter-plane-mode and is available from GNU ELPA. But don't expect miracles from it. >> - artist-mode and picture-mode unfortunatelly add extra spaces and has >> surprice behavour in visual-line-mode The extra spaces should normally be deleted upon save, so they should not make a difference except for display line-wrapping (quarter-plane-mode uses the same technique of inserting&removing spaces as needed; actually uses code from picture-mode internally). > 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. Stefan