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bug#50403: 27.2; calc-grab-region should check rectangle-mark-mode
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#50403: 27.2; calc-grab-region should check rectangle-mark-mode |
Date: |
Mon, 06 Sep 2021 12:56:43 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:
> 6 sep. 2021 kl. 11.19 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
>
>> I think that sounds reasonable, but I don't use calc much myself. I've
>> added Mattias to the CCs; perhaps he has an opinion here.
>
> Only that he agrees with the previous speakers!
OK; I've now pushed this change to Emacs 28.
> For that matter, in an ideal world the Emacs region/selection would be:
>
> (1) independent of point and mark
> (2) of arbitrary shape (linear, rectangular, possibly discontiguous)
> (3) represented by an abstract object type in Lisp
>
> and all operations on the region should be able to cope with any
> shape, with useful behaviour for special cases.
Indeed. It's a bit ad hoc currently.
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