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From: Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Structural regular expressions
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:52:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pvhpd3sow7uc.fsf@gmx.li> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvlj7c9ura.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> A halfway house, similar to that suggested by Drew, would be something
>> like http://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/~s0198183/multi-region.el.  ISTR some
>> discussion when it was posted in g.e.sources, *grovels through mail*:
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.sources/1390

>> Maybe this is a useful feature to now think about incorporating

> Indeed, we could probably go a long way by simply

This must be a new and exciting definition of simply that I am
not previously aware of.  Else I'm being particularly dense.

> extending our notion of region so as to allow it to be
> non-contiguous.

Glancing through the source, this seems like it would be a pretty
major change.  I guess BEGV and ZV would have to be changed from
buffer positions to lists of buffer positions.  Then everything
that looked at them would be updated to respect this change.  And
so forth.  Or do I have the wrong end of the stick?

Lawrence
-- 
Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>




  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-08 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-07 19:25 Structural regular expressions Tom
2010-09-07 20:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-07 20:27   ` Tom
2010-09-07 21:08     ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-08  1:13     ` Eric Schulte
2010-09-08  8:46       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-08  9:20         ` Lawrence Mitchell
2010-09-08 10:30           ` Kan-Ru Chen
2010-09-09  6:34             ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2010-09-08 14:29           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-08 15:52             ` Lawrence Mitchell [this message]
2010-09-08 22:46               ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-09  7:07                 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-09 17:03                   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 12:23                     ` David Kastrup
2010-09-10 13:31                       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-09 20:47             ` Davis Herring
2010-09-09 22:52               ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-10 10:48                 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 15:43                 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-10 17:03                   ` David House
     [not found]                   ` <AANLkTi=dv8n40x-rTtz@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-10 20:29                     ` Tom
2010-09-10 23:50                       ` Drew Adams
2010-09-11  2:23                         ` Miles Bader
2010-09-11  7:44                           ` Tom
2010-09-11  7:58                           ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-11  8:33                             ` tomas
2010-09-11 15:04                           ` Drew Adams
2010-09-11 15:49                       ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-12 13:48                         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-12 14:09                           ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-12 16:43                             ` Drew Adams
2010-09-12 17:03                               ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-12 21:31                                 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-09 15:51       ` Tom
2010-09-09 16:01         ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-09 16:23           ` Tom
2010-09-09 16:44             ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-09 16:53               ` Tom
2010-09-09 17:02                 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-09 19:27             ` Daniel Colascione
2010-09-08  0:00 ` Drew Adams

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