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Re: Rectangular regions


From: Josh
Subject: Re: Rectangular regions
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:55:22 -0700

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Leo Liu <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2013-11-01 11:06 +0800, Josh wrote:
>> IMO for most users setting a rectangular mark will be done infrequently
>> enough that it would be a waste to dedicate C-] to it.  C-x r C-SPC seems
>> like a reasonable default binding to me for the reasons I mentioned earlier,
>> and naturally users that prefer shorter bindings would be free to assign
>> them in their init files.
>
> You are too pessimistic. There are many interesting things that can be
> built on this feature. For example, I no longer need to `C-x r k', when
> C-w will do just fine.

Based on my personal experience and the mentions of rectangle commands
I've seen on blogs, IRC, and elsewhere, my impression is that rectangle
commands usually fall into the "occasionally very useful" category, with the
emphasis on "occasionally."  Perhaps I'm in the minority, but it doesn't seem
worthwhile to give up C-] in exchange for saving a single keystroke for
infrequent operations like kill-rectangle.



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