Re: avoid narrow-to-region (was: Re: replace-regexp)

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

> OK, so now we have one hacker/hacky solution and one
> scientist/scientific, so what is the next step? It is ...
>
> the engineer solution!
>
> Task: separate the material (i.e., the data type) from the
> algorithm, so that the algorithm can be applied to any form of
> data, be it a string, words on a line, lines as we have seen,
> a list of arbitrary elements...

Let's do it like this, if we can get the algorithm to work on
an arbitrary list, then all data-type issues can be solved
easily, by adding two functions, one disassembly function that
splits the data into a list, and one assembly function that
puts it back together, after the algorithm has randomized
it!

So for example if the data is the string "data":

1. "data" -> '("d" "a" "t" "a")
2. run the algorithm, get e.g '("a" "d" "t" "a")
3. '("a" "d" "t" "a") -> "adta"

Because Lisp is already based on the universal data structure
which can express all human knowledge, isn't it possible that
there is already a Lisp list randomizer that fulfills even
Yuri's most uncompromising demands?

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