Re: Highlighting rectangles?

[Ehud Karni]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:10:59 -0700 (MST), Richard Stallman <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> 
>     It is obvious, that it is not as easy as it seems, because he must first
>     decide, what should be highlighted (region/rectangle). What should be done
>     here? Do we miss something like that?
> 
> The idea seems natural, but because of this difficulty, I suspect it
> won't actually be useful.
> 
> Yes, we could introduce a command that says "highlight a rectantle
> instead of a region."  But that would not be very convenient on its own
> and would not fit naturally with the existing Emacs command set.

I have implemented block (rectangle) highlighting some years ago, but
I'm not using the point-mark system. I have a different system of marks
(characters mark - same as Emacs original point-mark, line marks that
marks whole lines, and block marks - opposite corners of rectangle).
I have 3 commands for marking, 1 for each type. The highlighting is
done according to the mark type.

I find it very useful.

Ehud.


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