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From: | Gregory Heytings |
Subject: | bug#42307: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays |
Date: | Sun, 12 Jul 2020 08:21:04 +0000 |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.21 (NEB 202 2017-01-01) |
How this highlighting is different from the rectangle selection mode activated by 'C-x SPC'?I'm not the OP, but I think the point is to provide different behaviors for overlays, just as we now have the original behavior (rebaptized as :extend) and the new behavior that doesn't extend.It's not about text selection or defining the region. It's about overlay properties. That's my understanding, anyway.
Your understanding is correct, the point is not to create a new selection mode (they all exist as far as I can see) but a new overlay behavior, with a face attribute.
Gregory
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