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

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: "27896 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <27896 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
 Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: bug#27896: 25.2; `C-M-%' with
 `rectangle-mark-mode'
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2021 22:07:11 +0100

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

> So this is a question of priorities: does it make sense to spend
> much time implementing this.  Are there any users of this feature?
>
> I mean the feature of regexp and multi-line replacements in rectangle mode,
> because non-regexp single-line string replacements already work fine
> in rectangle mode.
>
> Or it's enough to explain the current limitation in the documentation.

I don't think it's a particularly important bug to fix -- like you, I
think that the number of users here is pretty small.  (To say the
least.)

But I'm not sure whether this is something that should be documented,
either -- it looks like a bug to me, so just leaving it open until
somebody feels like fixing it is an option.

As for how, I don't know.  Perhaps marking regions as skippable somehow
would be an option?  That is, when doing rectangles, mark all the text
outside of the rectangle as skippable (temporarily).  I seem to remember
there being some discussion about this in general for the searching
functions...

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