Re: rectangle mode selection

[Kevin Rodgers]

On 2/22/11 9:50 AM, Andrea Crotti wrote:
> Talking with a friend we got to this conclusion, emacs has very cool rectangle commands, 
> but they're hard to "see".
>
> I mean in other editors you can really select a rectangle and then work with 
> it, with emacs you have to compute it yourself.
>
> It would be great if at least when I select some text, the area that represents 
> the rectangle has a slightly different color
> than the rest of the selected text.
>
> Would that be somehow possible?

M-x report-emacs-bug RET
feature request: M-x transient-rectangle-mode RET
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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA