Re: keymap in yank-excluded-properties

[Andreas Schwab]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

|> "Robert J. Chassell" <address@hidden> writes:
|> >        It would be nice to have a special `rectangle-mode' which would make
|> >        _all_ the normal kill/copy commands such as C-w and M-w deal in
|> >        `rectangles' (and use a highlighting hack to make an active region
|> >        really look like a rectangle).
|> > 
|> >    I don't think this makes sense as a mode.  
|> > 
|> > It could be a `context specific minor mode', as proposed for table.el,
|> > activated, perhaps, when you give a special `set-rectangle-mark'
|> > command.  
|> 
|> That was what I meant.  It would be a minor-mode that got turned on
|> temporarily when you did `set-rectangle-mark', and presumably turned
|> off when you do a C-w or hit C-g, or whatever (the minor-mode indicator
|> would provide a hint that things were slightly different than normal).

Sorta like transient-mark-mode.

Andreas.

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