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Re: kill-rectangle counts incorrectly

From: Peter Dyballa
Subject: Re: kill-rectangle counts incorrectly
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:36:24 +0100 

Am 20.12.2005 um 06:33 schrieb Richard M. Stallman:


     When I now go
forward (right) by one char, the cursor in deed steps forward by two 
    columns (because of the way the ASCII NUL is displayed) -- and the
    rectangle which is killed now, is two characters wide and not one!
    That's a bug -- in my opinion.

That is not a bug.  ^@ takes up two columns, and so the recntangle
is two columns wide.


It's only *presented* as a "wide" character ...



Perhaps the presence of ^@ in a directory listing is a bug.
Yes, there must be some reason for that -- and it only happens in GNU Emacsen, not in xterm or Terminal. 

--
Greetings

  Pete

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