From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Region argument (was: [patch] Run occur command restricted to a region) Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 20:34:14 +0200 Message-ID: <83a8b8f0wp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87vau3jl6f.fsf@gmail.com> <8337h6vhr7.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1483468908 9502 195.159.176.226 (3 Jan 2017 18:41:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 18:41:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 03 19:41:44 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cOU1b-0000fh-2d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 19:41:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35464 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOU1f-0006mz-5C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 13:41:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49428) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOTum-0000ih-QC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 13:34:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOTuj-0002fy-JS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 13:34:28 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57907) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOTuj-0002fu-GG; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 13:34:25 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2174 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cOTug-0001SQ-OF; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 13:34:25 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:37:20 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:211089 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:37:20 -0500 > > Note also that in order to support rectangular regions (which are > currently poorly supported, but which we'd like to see supported more > generally), we should change/tweak this convention. We could start by having Someone™ "in the know" (hint, hint) describe the new conventions in the ELisp manual. Right now, there's nothing there about rectangular regions. Nothing at all.