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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:

> You can narrow the buffer to the region with ``C-x n n'', perform
> any operation that would affect the entire buffer only on the
> narrowed region and widen the view of the current buffer to the
> full buffer contents with ``C-x n w'' again.
>
> I regularly use this to replace-string or replace-regexp in a
> region and it works quite fine :)

I use replace-string without narrowing, with transient-mark-mode, and
it works good too.