RE: [Emacs-diffs] master 134ba45: Allow two mouse functions to work with Rectangle Mark mode

[Drew Adams]

> Hmm... while it's true that currently, I don't know of a package which
> provides non contiguous regions other than rectangular regions,

zones.el does.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/zones.el

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Zones

> there hopefully will be such a package in the future (which lets you build
> arbitrary non-contiguous region, chunk by chunk, or create
> a non-contiguous region holding all matches of a particular regexp).

zones.el lets you do these things.

> Maybe we need to extend the API of noncontiguous regions so you can
> tell which "special mode" is associated with it (if any)?

I don't understand the question. Could you elaborate?
Searching your msg for "special" didn't help.