Subject: Re: bug#20070: 24.3; have commands such as downcase-region act on a rectangle region

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:08:28 -0400

> A list of pairs would be much cleaner, indeed.  The problem is that
> there are 2 arguments already in region-handling commands: BEG and END.
> Using one of them for a list of pairs, and leaving another unused
> is not a nice thing to do.

I think this "lack of niceness" is not strong enough to override the
advantage of using a list of pairs.

        Stefan