From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Multiple regions Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:23:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87wr8sj85b.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326727436 28381 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2012 15:23:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:23:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bastien , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 16 16:23:47 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RmoPT-0000tI-5a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:23:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55953 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RmoPS-0004HO-Nu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:23:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36604) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RmoPL-0004HF-1n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:23:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RmoPE-0001W6-Ti for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:23:39 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:25859) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RmoPE-0001Vu-RM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:23:32 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av8EAD5AFE9FxKkV/2dsb2JhbABDFqwXgQqBBoFyAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSIDQi1ZYkqCwkNCwYBAgEBCAIMEQMJAQEGAQUeCgQBAgEBAgMBAgEBAQECgngBBgIDBwEEAQEBAYQNBIg7mmOEUg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,518,1320642000"; d="scan'208";a="156996824" Original-Received: from 69-196-169-21.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.169.21]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 16 Jan 2012 10:23:31 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 52B8F6610D; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:23:31 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:38:52 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147693 Archived-At: >>> I found this library to be quite useful: >>> =A0 http://www2.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~lmitche4/multi-region.el >>> Is there any plan to implement multiple regions natively? >> Plans, no. =A0But I think it would be good to do it. =A0This said, I thi= nk >> such an implementation would first want to move call-interactively to >> Elisp code. =A0And it will need to do a delicate redesign of the region = code. > If that ever happens then I think it should cover the case "multiple > major modes". I don't: handling non-contiguous regions is very easy, compared to handling multiple major modes. Stefan