From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Structural regular expressions Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:23:54 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87iq2drdlx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87sk1lt4uf.fsf@gmail.com> <87y6bbs8d1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284121457 21943 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2010 12:24:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:24:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 10 14:24:14 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou2eL-0003Hj-CF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:24:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44059 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ou2eK-0001ko-Jv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:24:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39262 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ou2eE-0001il-FB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:24:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou2eC-0002b9-BQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:24:06 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50433) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou2eC-0002av-67 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:24:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou2eA-0003Cj-En for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:24:02 +0200 Original-Received: from p508ed588.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.213.136]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:24:02 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p508ed588.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:24:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508ed588.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eqq863qZ/AguK2S7li0w4RqAmHU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129885 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> And what is narrow-to-region supposed to do then? > > Signal an error when the region is not contiguous? Opens another can of worms because quite a number of commands accepting a region argument implement it internally using narrow-to-region. -- David Kastrup