From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Multiple regions Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:01:07 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87wr8sj85b.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326718904 30725 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2012 13:01:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:01:44 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 16 14:01:39 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RmmBu-00032j-TV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:01:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38984 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RmmBu-0008Q7-Gs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:01:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58253) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RmmBl-0008Pp-80 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:01:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RmmBf-0007ER-Gz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:01:29 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:59217) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RmmBf-0007EG-9P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:01:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RmmBb-0002uL-Mb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:01:21 +0100 Original-Received: from 94-21-239-7.pool.digikabel.hu ([94.21.239.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:01:19 +0100 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 94-21-239-7.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:01:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.21.239.7 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.60) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147685 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii gnu.org> writes: > > What is wrong with that library that you'd like to support multiple > regions natively? > Native support for multiple regions could also support narrowing the buffer to multiple non-contiguous regions which would come in handy. For example, in the structural regular expressions thread it came up as a possible way to implement the feature: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-09/msg00230.html