From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: DWIM region Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 01:19:22 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86o9m99myd.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86shbmcldx.fsf@zoho.com> <86d12pcvgj.fsf@zoho.com> <86d12pb988.fsf_-_@zoho.com> <864lo1b4rh.fsf@zoho.com> <86vagh9oxo.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515111529 28181 195.159.176.226 (5 Jan 2018 00:18:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 00:18:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 05 01:18:45 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1eXFiR-0006Ep-TR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2018 01:18:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55982 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eXFkR-0007sZ-6c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 19:20:35 -0500 X-Received: by 10.223.134.9 with SMTP id 9mr139390wrv.12.1515111563292; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:19:23 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!a71no336398wme.0!news-out.google.com!a84ni2627wmc.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zRXoCvQ6k9fneBfYPnB6lQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:XYQ/Dwxa30goR4YBBfsDhdmPCwo= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221471 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115588 Archived-At: YT wrote: > But ironically, the new and improved function > fails on the intitial use case - which did work > when the region check was scornfully "performed > ... in the body of the function" > > %% how many books? (count-regexp-hits "@book") > > @book{fiberglass-boat-repair-manual, author = > {Allan Vaitses}, ISBN = {0-07-156914-6}, > publisher = {International Marine}, title = > {The Fiberglass Boat Repair Manual}, year = > 1988 } > > @book{savage-sword-of-conan-22, author = {Roy > Thomas}, ISBN = 1616558717, publisher = {Dark > Horse}, title = {Savage Sword of Conan 22}, > year = 2016 } It doesn't matter because it is almost impossible to do anything with it that way anyway. The only example I have came up with thus far is actually my original test which concluded it didn't work :) I guess one should consider the region an interactive feature? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573