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bug#42307: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#42307: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Jul 2020 02:50:12 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> What about a variant of your "visual block" that extends the overlay so
>> that all lines, from the first line, which contains `overlay-start' to
>> the last line, which contains `overlay-end', are covered through the same
>> columns? Coverage (highlighting) would then always be a rectangle. In
>> your example, it would the highlighting of the last line would be
>> extended to the same column as that of the other lines.
>
> That's a possible variant, indeed. Let's name this one
> "visualrectangle". But from a programmer's point of view it makes (IMHO)
> less sense.
How this highlighting is different from the rectangle selection mode
activated by 'C-x SPC'?
- bug#42307: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays, Gregory Heytings, 2020/07/10
- bug#42307: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays, Drew Adams, 2020/07/10
- bug#42307: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays, Drew Adams, 2020/07/10
- bug#42307: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays, Gregory Heytings, 2020/07/10
- bug#42307: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays, Gregory Heytings, 2020/07/10
- bug#42307: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays,
Juri Linkov <=
- bug#42307: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays, Drew Adams, 2020/07/11
- bug#42307: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays, Gregory Heytings, 2020/07/12
- bug#42307: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays, Juri Linkov, 2020/07/12
- bug#42307: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays, Gregory Heytings, 2020/07/13