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25.0.50; query-replace in rectangle regions do not honor boundaries

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Message #20 received at 19829 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: Bastien <bzg <at> gnu.org>, 19829 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19829: 25.0.50;
 query-replace in rectangle regions do not honor boundaries
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 22:59:11 -0500

>> Obviously, this infrastructure is not sufficient for query-replace, so
>> we'll need to add a `region-map-function` or something like that.
> Better would be to add a function that will return a list of positions
> of the rectangular region, i.e. while currently for the contiguous region
> region-beginning/end returns its bounds, for non-contiguous rectangular
> regions we need a list of column bounds.

That would also work, yes.  We could make region-extract-function accept
yet another value of its argument (say `positions') such that instead of
returning the textual content, it just returns a list of
(START . END) bounds.


        Stefan

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