From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20070: 24.3; have commands such as downcase-region act on a rectangle region Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 23:42:08 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87iodoiwjz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <87bnjyf29d.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87h9tmov9h.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <877fugr6yn.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87zj7b5s9t.fsf@mail.linkov.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427320743 24050 80.91.229.3 (25 Mar 2015 21:59:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:59:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?P=C3=A5l_?= =?UTF-8?Q?Gr=C3=B8n=C3=A5s?= Drange , 20070@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 25 22:58:52 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 1YatK7-0004dh-OD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:58:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41531 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YatK6-0007Pu-UD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:58:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34366) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YatIP-0004P1-M5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:57:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YatIM-00009R-A1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:57:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46899) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YatIM-00009G-1j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:57:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YatIL-0002aT-Qo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:57:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:57:01 +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=B20070.14273205759883 (code B ref 20070); Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:57:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20070) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Mar 2015 21:56:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36673 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YatHa-0002ZG-T7 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:56:15 -0400 Original-Received: from sub3.mail.dreamhost.com ([69.163.253.7]:57597 helo=homiemail-a23.g.dreamhost.com) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YatHX-0002Z4-95 for 20070@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:56:12 -0400 Original-Received: from homiemail-a23.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a23.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 436CA4B006F; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost.linkov.net (85.253.154.202.cable.starman.ee [85.253.154.202]) (Authenticated sender: jurta@jurta.org) by homiemail-a23.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3F74B4B0062; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:56:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:37:22 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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:100934 Archived-At: > I'm tempted to say that "r" should do (funcall region-extract-function > 'positions), and fallback to passing the result as 2 separate positions > if the result is a singleton list. Then all unfixed commands will fail on the rectangular region, but they do the wrong thing now anyway, so this is not a problem. > Also, if we change "r" then I think > it might make sense to pass a special value in the second arg to be more > explicit then just nil (e.g. pass :split-region). Then the command signature could be changed from (downcase-region BEG END) to e.g. (downcase-region REGION REGION-TYPE) or maybe to signify their dual nature (downcase-region REGION-OR-BEG REGION-TYPE-OR-END) and I see no better way to do this.