Re: On controlling rectangle-preview

[Mark Oteiza]

On 20/07/16 at 08:37am, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > To me that seems a little odd (unexpected behaviour),
> 
> Hmm... I can see that.
> 
> > and with an empty minibuffer the default preview is only an M-n away.
> 
> Good point.  So I think your patch is OK as is, tho I'm not sure the
> custom variable is worth the trouble.

Sounds good to me, thanks.

This ends up bring very simple--permission to push to emacs-25?

diff --git a/lisp/rect.el b/lisp/rect.el
index 8803a47..a86d155 100644
--- a/lisp/rect.el
+++ b/lisp/rect.el
@@ -410,9 +410,6 @@ rectangle-preview
 (defun rectangle--string-preview ()
   (when rectangle-preview
     (let ((str (minibuffer-contents)))
-      (when (equal str "")
-        (setq str (or (car-safe minibuffer-default)
-                      (if (stringp minibuffer-default) minibuffer-default))))
       (when str (setq str (propertize str 'face 'rectangle-preview)))
       (with-selected-window rectangle--string-preview-window
         (unless (or (null rectangle--string-preview-state)