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

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:28:03 -0400

While this is not the same bug as bug#19829, it's fundamentally the same
issue, and they should be fixed in the same way.

        Stefan

>>>>> "Pål" == Pål Grønås Drange <[email-masked]> writes:

> downcase-region in marked rectangle does not downcase entire rectangle
> and downcases things not marked:

> On the following content in my buffer (*scratch*), upon marking the
> inner rectangle consisting of "FG" and "JK" using C-return (cua-mode
> enabled)

>     ABCD
>     EFGH
>     IJKL
>     MNOP

> Applying `downcase-region` yields the following unexpected result:

>     ABCD
>     Efgh
>     ijKL
>     MNOP

> I would expect "fg" and "jk" to be downcased, and not "fgh" and "ij".

> Original report at http://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/9913/5154