From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Region argument (was: [patch] Run occur command restricted to a region) Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:37:20 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87vau3jl6f.fsf@gmail.com> <8337h6vhr7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1483465075 11682 195.159.176.226 (3 Jan 2017 17:37:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 17:37:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 03 18:37:52 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 1cOT1t-0002DW-97 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 18:37:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35163 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOT1x-0006iD-F9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:37:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36055) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOT1r-0006e3-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:37:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOT1n-0004qj-6J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:37:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=42171 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOT1m-0004qT-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:37:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cOT1a-000077-Ju for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 18:37:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:lusvMNv9Ruv9VScqDDtE8xRvx/w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:211085 Archived-At: > I think our convention for functions that act on the region is to > accept BEG and END arguments, so that the function could be called > from Lisp. Indeed. 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. Stefan