GNU bug report logs - #49842
re-builder restriction to region (lisp/emacs-lisp/re-builder)

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Message #11 received at 49842 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Karthik Chikmagalur <karthikchikmagalur <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 49842 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#49842: re-builder restriction to region
 (lisp/emacs-lisp/re-builder)
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2021 09:29:44 +0200

Karthik Chikmagalur <karthikchikmagalur <at> gmail.com> writes:

> IIRC, the right way to restrict this to the region would be to define
> a variable to hold the bounds of the region as specified by the user
> before starting re-builder and re-search-forward inside those
> bounds. Perhaps a closure that's tied to the specific re-builder
> session can be used to avoid issues with the value of this variable
> when running multiple simultaneous re-builder sessions.

I'm not very familiar with re-builder.el myself, but I think that sounds
like a promising approach.

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