From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20070: 24.3; have commands such as downcase-region act on a rectangle region Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:10:18 +0200 Message-ID: <83fv94yu91.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bnjyf29d.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87h9tmov9h.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <877fugr6yn.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426576283 12790 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2015 07:11:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 07:11:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: paal.drange@gmail.com, 20070@debbugs.gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 17 08:11:15 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YXlej-0001EG-9e for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:11:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53052 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXlei-00037Z-3H for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 03:11:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39898) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXled-00032y-IA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 03:11:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXleZ-0001mN-3P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 03:11:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:50543) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXleZ-0001mI-0B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 03:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YXleY-0001kc-Bp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 03:11:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 07:11:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20070 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 20070-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20070.14265762346689 (code B ref 20070); Tue, 17 Mar 2015 07:11:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20070) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Mar 2015 07:10:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49111 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YXle6-0001jp-Ek for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 03:10:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:42173) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YXle3-0001jg-Rr for 20070@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 03:10:33 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NLC00E00H393D00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 20070@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:10:30 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NLC00EQSH9H3I00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:10:30 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <877fugr6yn.fsf@mail.linkov.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:100575 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:58:56 +0200 > Cc: Pål Grønås Drange > , 20070@debbugs.gnu.org > > A list of pairs would be much cleaner, indeed. The problem is that > there are 2 arguments already in region-handling commands: BEG and END. > Using one of them for a list of pairs, and leaving another unused > is not a nice thing to do. Why not? AFAIK, we already have APIs where an argument could be either a buffer position or a string.