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: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 20:59:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <52707D17.6010801@dancol.org> <8338niefba.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9hq8h7p.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <29a14514-03d2-42ba-88c1-1bbac26f045a@default> <87iowbs4a9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383440423 23471 80.91.229.3 (3 Nov 2013 01:00:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 01:00:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jay Finger , emacs-devel , Bastien , Josh , Eli Zaretskii , Daniel Colascione , Leo Liu , Drew Adams To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 03 02:00:26 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 1Vcm3C-0008D9-KQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 02:00:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43651 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vcm3C-00017W-0o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2013 21:00:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34120) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vcm31-00017A-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2013 21:00:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vcm2u-000885-8t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2013 21:00:11 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:6417) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vcm2e-0007nG-VO; Sat, 02 Nov 2013 20:59:49 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFLd/NT/2dsb2JhbABEDr8AF3OCHgEBBAFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDpHqBXoI5Wg X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFLd/NT/2dsb2JhbABEDr8AF3OCHgEBBAFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDpHqBXoI5Wg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="36960607" Original-Received: from 75-119-243-83.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([75.119.243.83]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 02 Nov 2013 20:59:47 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 00593660A2; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 20:59:46 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87iowbs4a9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Sat, 02 Nov 2013 15:31:42 +0900") 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:164883 Archived-At: > Discoverability of the default bindings is very important. If it's on > C-x r, C-x r C-h will list it for you. That's true. OTOH rectangle-mark-mode makes most of the C-x r rectangle commands accessible without using C-x r (the main exceptions currently are string-rectangle and open-rectangle), so in a sense it makes the "C-x r for rectangle" prefix obsolete (not the whole C-x r prefix, of course, since the register operations are completely independent). Stefan