Re: Free cursor movement beyond the end of line

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > I recently discovered rectangle-mode -- maybe it does what you want.
>> Indeed, rectangle-mode has some code that does something related, but it
>> only handles the part of *displaying* the cursor where there's no actual
>> text, it doesn't try to let you then insert text at that position.
> cua-rectangle-mark-mode does, AFAIR.

It offers some more ad-hoc commands than rectangle-mark-mode, but it
basically suffers from the same problem: it doesn't let you run "any
command" at "any position", contrary to quarter-plane-mode.


        Stefan