From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rectangular regions Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:57:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83r4b0bc73.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383310682 22110 80.91.229.3 (1 Nov 2013 12:58:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 12:58:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Yuri Khan To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 01 13:58:03 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VcEIZ-0005tb-Vj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 13:58:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37973 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VcEIZ-0005L6-DO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:57:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47274) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VcEIP-0005K9-SE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:57:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VcEII-0002wW-Do for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:57:49 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:61411) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VcEHq-0002st-3K; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:57:14 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCrb4/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCrb4/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="36844496" Original-Received: from 76-10-182-248.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.182.248]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 01 Nov 2013 08:57:12 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6983763ED3; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 08:57:12 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83r4b0bc73.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 01 Nov 2013 13:20:32 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164803 Archived-At: >> For us cua-mode junkies, please consider Alt+arrows (alternatively >> Alt+Shift+arrows) and Alt+drag (alternatively, click at one corner, >> Alt+click at opposite corner). AFAICT, this is not part of the default cua-mode behavior. I see some code to provide the Alt+click/drag if cua-rectangle-modifier-key is not `meta', but I don't see any code to support the Alt+arrows option. > That will only make sense if the functionality is similar enough to > what cua-rect does. I didn't test this well enough to know whether it > is; I do know that cua-rect has some tricks up its sleeve. There several important differences. But that shouldn't preclude us from looking at cua-mode for inspiration. Stefan