Re: On controlling rectangle-preview

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:54:22 -0400
> From: Mark Oteiza <address@hidden>
> Cc: John Wiegley <address@hidden>,
>       Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,
>       Emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> 
> The new defcustom in the original patch would only prevent the preview if its 
> value was nil and the minibuffer
> was empty. If we agree on nil by default instead, and if the new variable is 
> not worth adding, then... 
> 
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-07/msg00911.html,
> > which presents a totally different one)?
> 
> ... this is the patch that achieves that. Of course, I could have 
> misinterpreted Stefan's comments here
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-07/msg00835.html
> Sorry if that is the case. 
> 
> > And why is it needed in emacs-25? Is there some urgent or
> > particularly nasty problem involved that we'd like to fix ASAP?
> 
> It affects a feature that will be new in the release, as opposed to affecting 
> a feature that existed in previous
> releases.

Thanks, I'm okay with pushing it to emacs-25.