Re: no good way to highlight rectangle while region is highlighted

[Dan Nicolaescu]

"Ehud Karni" <address@hidden> writes:

  > On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:59:30, Joe Wells wrote:
  > >
  > > Summary of this message: This is a feature request for (1) the
  > > possibility that some overlays can have priority over the use of the
  > > region face, and/or (2) a variant of the -box- face feature where the
  > > vertical lines of the box take no extra space.
  >        [snip]
  > > Any suggestions?  I'd like to use either background colors, or the box
  > > face feature, but either of these would require changes to Emacs to
  > > work acceptably.
  > 
  > 
  > Below is my code to mark rectangles (blocks):
  > 
  > > Any suggestions?  I'd like to use either background colors, or the box
  > > face feature, but either of these would require changes to Emacs to
  > > work acceptably.
  > 
  > I think a strong background color (I use red) is much better because
  > it can not be missed. A frame only (box) can be overlooked, especially
  > when the rectangle is greater than the screen size.

BTW, cua-selection-mode has a way of marking rectangles, turn on
cua-selection-mode and the do C-RET and use the arrow keys to extend
the rectangle...