Re: position on changing defaults?

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     > It also gives you the rectangle highlighting (which I think most
>     > users would agree is quite useful) combined with the ability to
>     > use the normal region kill, copy and yank keys also for rectangles.
>     > So there's no need to learn a different command set for rectangles!
>
> That is a separate feature, and a major change in Emacs's region
> mechanism.  It may be good, but it calls for careful discussion and
> thought.  We should not adopt such a change because it came along
> with some other feature.

Unless you explicitly hit C-RET, you'll never notice it's there.
And I don't suggest removing the old rectangle commands...

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk