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: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:59:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83d2mne7p3.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383271218 18276 80.91.229.3 (1 Nov 2013 02:00:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 02:00:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 01 03:00:22 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 1Vc429-0004Ig-SX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2013 03:00:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60003 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vc429-0007Dx-DX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:00:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56545) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vc41z-0007Ds-Ko for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:00:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vc41s-0002RX-BZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:00:11 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:56655) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vc41i-00023L-U1; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:59:54 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFsoXfp/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDpHqBXoMT X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFsoXfp/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDpHqBXoMT X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="36812226" Original-Received: from 108-161-119-233.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([108.161.119.233]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 31 Oct 2013 21:59:54 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id EF3D160671; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:59:53 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:23:00 -0400") 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:164769 Archived-At: > If we can't see a reasonable thing to do in such cases, > we could give an error when trying to use the rectangular region > if the text isn't suitable to cope with. I think the current visual feedback is enough to "indicate an error". Stefan