Re: position on changing defaults?

[Chong Yidong]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

>> Because that's how the region behaves and that's how Emacs rectangles
>> behave, so it's more consistent.
>
> Well, I've never had a use for them in practice - and one of the
> features of CUA rectangles is that the cursor is INSIDE one of the
> rectangle corners -- namely the corner which you expand by moving the
> cursor.  
>
> Visually, this is much more pleasing than having the cursor
> sometimes inside, sometimes outside the rectangle.

But it's inconsistent with how the Emacs cursor typically behaves, and
it looks weird when you are using a bar cursor.

(For instance, I have a customization in my .emacs file that turns the
cursor into a bar whenever the mark is active:

  (add-hook 'deactivate-mark-hook '(lambda () (setq cursor-type t)))
  (add-hook 'activate-mark-hook   '(lambda () (setq cursor-type 'bar)))

With the bar cursor, cua rectangle selection doesn't do what is
expected.)