From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: bzg@gnu.org, dancol@dancol.org, sdl.web@gmail.com,
jay.finger@pobox.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rectangular regions
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 10:01:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837gcsczyu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzjpoq4nw.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:50:25 -0400
> Cc: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, sdl.web@gmail.com,
> jay.finger@pobox.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> We'll need to take a closer look at the various uses of the region
> and see what primitives would be useful.
Indeed. I'm not sure we fully understand the pertinent use cases of
yanking such regions into various contexts, let alone other operations
on region. I would like to believe that counting words is not the
most important one of them.
> > An interval list would allow us to select a "rectangle" in bidi
> > buffers, the underlying character-range chunks of which would actually
> > be arbitrary and non-contiguous.
>
> I'm in no hurry to go down that path. Lots of potholes on the way, and
> from where I stand, there doesn't seem to be much gold at the end of
> that road.
Agreed. Not before we are confident we have the rectangular region
features right in the unidirectional case.
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Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-30 1:59 Rectangular regions Stefan Monnier
2013-10-30 2:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-10-30 2:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-30 3:22 ` Leo Liu
2013-10-30 3:29 ` Daniel Colascione
2013-10-30 18:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-30 18:24 ` Bastien
2013-10-30 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-30 23:35 ` Bastien
2013-10-31 12:05 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2013-11-05 18:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-05 19:31 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-31 17:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-31 18:11 ` Jambunathan K
2013-10-31 18:36 ` Jay Finger
2013-10-31 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-31 19:28 ` Daniel Colascione
2013-10-31 19:38 ` Daniel Colascione
2013-10-31 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-01 1:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-01 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-10-31 22:50 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-11-01 17:12 ` Jay Finger
2013-11-01 18:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-01 19:05 ` Drew Adams
2013-11-01 19:25 ` John Yates
2013-11-05 22:44 ` Davis Herring
2013-11-01 1:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-01 2:13 ` Leo Liu
2013-11-01 3:06 ` Josh
2013-11-01 4:42 ` Leo Liu
2013-11-01 5:55 ` Josh
2013-11-01 8:33 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-02 10:25 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-11-01 15:04 ` Drew Adams
2013-11-02 6:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-11-02 8:14 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-02 9:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-11-02 10:05 ` [SPAM] " Jarek Czekalski
2013-11-02 11:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-11-02 14:56 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-02 16:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-11-02 17:19 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-03 8:41 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-11-02 15:30 ` Drew Adams
2013-11-02 17:03 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-03 0:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-03 0:36 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-01 15:04 ` Drew Adams
2013-11-01 8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-01 15:04 ` Drew Adams
2013-11-01 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-01 12:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-01 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-01 19:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-01 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-01 20:02 ` Daniel Colascione
2013-11-01 20:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-01 23:35 ` Josh
2013-11-02 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-02 18:20 ` Josh
2013-11-02 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-01 16:57 ` Jay Finger
2013-10-31 21:03 ` Josh
2013-11-01 2:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-05 19:47 ` Mathias Dahl
2013-10-30 20:31 ` John Yates
2013-10-31 20:23 ` Richard Stallman
2013-11-01 7:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-30 4:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-31 13:39 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-10-30 3:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-30 4:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-31 20:23 ` Richard Stallman
2013-11-01 1:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-30 3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-30 10:36 ` Bastien
2013-10-30 10:39 ` Bastien
2013-10-30 10:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-10-31 20:22 ` Richard Stallman
2013-11-01 0:54 ` Leo Liu
2013-10-30 13:19 ` Jambunathan K
2013-10-30 14:53 ` Josh
2013-10-30 16:56 ` Jambunathan K
2013-10-30 18:07 ` Jambunathan K
2013-10-31 20:22 ` Richard Stallman
2013-11-01 9:25 ` Yuri Khan
2013-11-01 11:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-01 12:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-01 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-01 15:08 ` Yuri Khan
2013-11-02 17:36 ` Jambunathan K
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