From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 41440@debbugs.gnu.org, Warren Lynn <wrn.lynn@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#41440: 26.3; 'replace' argument in function 'shell-command-on-region' is assumed to be always t for rectangle selection
Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 01:53:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d06us1oy.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d06v13h2.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 23 May 2020 11:04:57 +0300")
>> I am gladly surprised to find out function
>> shell-command-on-region
>> is supposed to work on rectangle selection also (with 'region-noncontiguous-p' set to t), but then
>> disappointed to find out the feature does not work. It has two problems:
>>
>> 1. As this email title says, argument 'replace' is assumed to be t no matter what.
>> 2. Even if I really want to replace the original selection with the shell-command output, it still does not work.
>> An error will be thrown in function "cua--insert-rectangle" due to some argument type mismatch.
>>
>> This feature will be very useful to me (and hopefully others too) and I hope somebody can fix the above.
>
> Juri, could you please look into this? In addition to the problem
> described in the bug report, the 'region-noncontiguous-p' argument is
> not mentioned in the doc string and not in the manual. I'd like to
> fix that for Emacs 27, please.
This is not a bug, it was implemented so in Emacs 25.
Or you'd like to fix only documentation for Emacs 27?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-23 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-21 18:53 bug#41440: 26.3; 'replace' argument in function 'shell-command-on-region' is assumed to be always t for rectangle selection Warren Lynn
[not found] ` <83d06v13h2.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-05-23 22:53 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2020-06-08 0:35 ` Juri Linkov
2020-06-08 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-08 23:35 ` Juri Linkov
2020-06-09 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-09 23:03 ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-24 0:36 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-01 3:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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