Re: Rectangular regions

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:38:49 -0700
> From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
> CC: Bastien <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, 
>  address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Or better yet --- just take an interval list. An interval list would 
> allow us to select a "rectangle" in bidi buffers, the underlying 
> character-range chunks of which would actually be arbitrary and 
> non-contiguous.

Before we even try doing that, we need to decide what would be the
semantics of pasting such a list of intervals, especially if some of
them are from R2L text.  It's nowhere near trivial.