Re: Fixing rectangle operations

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> The point is before 'long' in the first line. Vim documents
>>> that if one want to insert 'very ' before these two 'long's,
>>> it will ignore the short line. Hence the result is:
>>> 
>>> This is a very long line
>>> short
>>> Any other very long line
>> 
>> I dunno, vim's behavior seems kind of bizarre to me.
>> 
>> Treating all lines as implicitly "blank extended" in rectangle
>> operations seems much more natural (and _not_ doing so likely to cause a
>> lot of user confusion).

> I agree.  I can see the problem with Emacs doing what it does, but
> that feels more natural.  At least in the situations I use C-x r t I
> have never seen this as a problem.

Clearly both behaviors make sense.
If that really matters, we could provide the Vim behavior via C-u prefix or
via another command.


        Stefan