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#20626: Wishlist: M-x shell-command-on-rectangle-region Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 01:47:52 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87twv51raf.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <527474961.10107734.1432245870451.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1432248684 28248 80.91.229.3 (21 May 2015 22:51:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 22:51:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20626@debbugs.gnu.org To: asparagus@comcast.net Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 22 00:51:13 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 1YvZJ2-0002HP-G2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 May 2015 00:51:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59756 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YvZJ1-0006Ny-Mx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 May 2015 18:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42593) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YvZIy-0006Nh-Ji for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 May 2015 18:51:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YvZIt-0001PI-Gp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 May 2015 18:51:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:42468) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YvZIt-0001PD-Dr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 May 2015 18:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YvZIs-0005kR-GT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 May 2015 18:51:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 22:51:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20626 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 20626-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20626.143224863322001 (code B ref 20626); Thu, 21 May 2015 22:51:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20626) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 May 2015 22:50:33 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52443 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YvZIO-0005il-RX for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 21 May 2015 18:50:33 -0400 Original-Received: from sub3.mail.dreamhost.com ([69.163.253.7]:53804 helo=homiemail-a11.g.dreamhost.com) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YvZIL-0005iS-4X for 20626@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 21 May 2015 18:50:30 -0400 Original-Received: from homiemail-a11.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a11.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F4D6E07C; Thu, 21 May 2015 15:50:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost.linkov.net (82.131.88.134.cable.starman.ee [82.131.88.134]) (Authenticated sender: jurta@jurta.org) by homiemail-a11.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 544CA6E076; Thu, 21 May 2015 15:50:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <527474961.10107734.1432245870451.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> (asparagus@comcast.net's message of "Thu, 21 May 2015 22:04:30 +0000 (UTC)") 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:103008 Archived-At: > Wishlist: > M-x shell-command-on-rectangle-region As you can see in bug#20070, the effort to make commands rectangleable had stalled some time ago due to the need to decide how to handle backward-compatibility of the existing region arguments, e.g. in (shell-command-on-region START END COMMAND &optional OUTPUT-BUFFER REPLACE ERROR-BUFFER DISPLAY-ERROR-BUFFER) how to send the boundaries of the rectangular region in START and END. One idea is to handle it like recently we handled backward-compatibility for saving dired positions in saveplace.el where we used a new format like ("~" (dired-filename . "~/.emacs.d/places")) Using something like this means sending the rectangular bounds either in START or END in the new format like (rect (1 . 2) (3 . 4))