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Re: Marking squares
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Marking squares |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:35:19 +0200 |
> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 03:47:59 +0100
>
> I'm contemplating implementing a very, very simple image editor in
> Emacs, which would mainly just allow image cropping. To do that, it
> would be nice if `mouse-drag-region' would allow highlighting a "box"
> instead of the lines between mark and the mouse position.
I'm confused: "lines between mark and the mouse position" seems to
refer to region highlighting, whereas you are talking about
highlighting parts of an image, I think. An image is a single line
for region marking purposes, so I wonder how these two issues could be
related. What am I missing?
> So my question is -- does Emacs have an option of highlighting
> rectangles instead of "the region"? It might be useful when using
> commands like `C-x r k', too, perhaps.
Rectangles of text or rectangles of pixels? Emacs doesn't normally
work at pixel level, except at the lowest level of its
display-specific back end, like xterm.c and w32term.c, which I doubt
is relevant to what you are looking for.