GNU bug report logs - #20070
24.3; have commands such as downcase-region act on a rectangle region

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Pål Grønås Drange <paal.drange <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 02:20:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 19829, 20626

Found in versions 24.3, 25.0.50

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #44 received at 20070 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: paal.drange <at> gmail.com, 20070 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#20070: 24.3;
 have commands such as downcase-region act on a rectangle region
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:10:18 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:58:56 +0200
> Cc: Pål Grønås Drange
> 	<paal.drange <at> gmail.com>, 20070 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 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.

Why not?  AFAIK, we already have APIs where an argument could be
either a buffer position or a string.
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