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From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 67925@debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>,
	Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
	awrhygty@outlook.com
Subject: bug#67925: 29.1; delete-rectangle fails on multi-column characters
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:12:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr0jfmfiy.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r0jffqql.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:46:26 +0200")

>> I think wide characters may be replaced with SPC like TAB.
> I don't think I agree.   Let's see what others think Stefan, Juri,
> Stefan, any opinions?  Does anyone else have an opinion on this?

I think in those circumstances, all options suck, and I suspect that the
preferred behavior will depend on not only who you ask, but also what
the specific case looks like :-(

IME inserting SPCs is wrong when the text you started from doesn't
include any whitespace at all, for example.

And not inserting SPC tends to be equally wrong when alignment needs to
be preserved.

There's no way to win, unless we can find a way to let the user control
the behavior, which seems difficult to do without making the UI overlay complex.


        Stefan






  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-21 21:12 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 [this message]
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
2023-12-28  9:01                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-03 19:00                         ` awrhygty
2024-01-03 19:31                           ` Eli Zaretskii

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