Re: Highlighting rectangles?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> I remember a discussion where someone asked if Emacs could handle
> a non-contiguous region, so you could highlight several pieces of text
> and then kill them with C-w.

FWIW, we might need something like that anyway for the bidirectional
support.  That's because a portion of the display that looks
contiguous on the screen might not be contiguous in the buffer (due to
logical-to-visual reordering).