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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Pål Grønås Drange" <paal.drange@gmail.com>, 20070@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20070: 24.3; have commands such as downcase-region act on a rectangle region
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:58:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fugr6yn.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwq2hjd8j.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:19:12 -0400")

>> If the command used region-beginning and region-end, this means
>> changing them to e.g. plural region-beginnings and region-ends.
>
> Here again, I'd rather use a list of pairs than a pair of lists, so we
> wouldn't want to have 2 functions (one to get the list of beginnings
> and another to get the list of ends).

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.





  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-16 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-10  1:06 bug#20070: 24.3; have commands such as downcase-region act on a rectangle region Pål Grønås Drange
2015-03-11 20:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-12 19:23   ` Juri Linkov
2015-03-14 16:31     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-15 20:34       ` Juri Linkov
2015-03-15 20:41         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-16 11:49           ` Nicolas Richard
2015-03-16 13:14           ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-16 20:55           ` Juri Linkov
2015-03-16 22:07             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-16 13:19         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-16 20:58           ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2015-03-16 22:08             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-17 19:38               ` Juri Linkov
2015-03-25  0:37                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-25 21:42                   ` Juri Linkov
2015-03-17  7:10             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-30 20:44   ` Juri Linkov

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