rectangular region kill saves leading whitespaces

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rectangular region kill saves leading whitespaces

From:	Garreau\, Alexandre
Subject:	rectangular region kill saves leading whitespaces
Date:	Tue, 30 Oct 2018 06:07:12 +0100
User-agent:	Gnus (5.13), GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.11) of 2017-09-15, modified by Debian

Try copying that (without “> ” prefixes) with rectangular selection:
> a
> aaa
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> aaa
> a

It copies created leading whitespaces at each line shorter than the
longest one.

It is annoying to me: is it intended to be as it is, is it a bug, or a
non-existing-yet feature?

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- `move-end-of-line' in `rectangular region': `goto-longest-line', Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/10/30
  - Re: `move-end-of-line' in `rectangular region': `goto-longest-line', Eli Zaretskii, 2018/10/30
    - Re: `move-end-of-line' in `rectangular region': `goto-longest-line', Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/10/30
    - Re: `move-end-of-line' in `rectangular region': `goto-longest-line', Eli Zaretskii, 2018/10/30
    - Re: `move-end-of-line' in `rectangular region': `goto-longest-line', Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/10/30
  - Re: `move-end-of-line' in `rectangular region': `goto-longest-line', Kaushal Modi, 2018/10/30
  - Re: `move-end-of-line' in `rectangular region': `goto-longest-line', Stefan Monnier, 2018/10/30
- Re: rectangular region kill saves leading whitespaces, Kaushal Modi, 2018/10/30
  - Re: rectangular region kill saves leading whitespaces, Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/10/30

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