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25.2; `C-M-%' with `rectangle-mark-mode'

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Message #35 received at 27896 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: "27896 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <27896 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: bug#27896: 25.2; `C-M-%' with
 `rectangle-mark-mode'
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2021 19:54:21 +0200

> I've long had in mind doing this myself,
> and started to do so more than once, but I
> haven't gotten around to accomplishing it.
>
> If someone does it (in a general way, with
> no assumptions of rectangularity) then
> great.  If not, that will be for some
> indefinite future.

In the most general case, a noncontiguous region
is just a set of subregions (or as you call this -
'zones') that for the commands that operate on it
should look as just one contiguous string.
How to implement this, I have no idea.

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