Re: patch to fix rect.el like GNU rect.el
Didier Verna <didier(a)xemacs.org> writes:
I disagree, in the particular case of string-rectangle.
The special point with this function is that it doesn't currently
use the rectangle you selected, but just the left side. In other
words, the non pending-del behavior can be achieved by just
selecting a 0-width rectangle.
Yes, but it is a pain to have to do it this way. The only occasion
where I have used this function is to turn as ascii table into to tex
table which I did as follows.
Move to the column where want to insert the ampersand. Then type
C-SPC
M-> to move to the end of the buffer
Type left to the end of the last line
M-x string-rectangle
& RET
I would be highly annoyed if this deleted the whole right half of the
table. I never want XEmacs to delete anything unless I asked it too.
My opinion that tying this to pending-delete covers 99.99% of all
cases still stands.
Jan