GNU bug report logs - #51892
29.0.50; [PATCH] Don't ignore restriction in indent-region-line-by-line

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From: <miha <at> kamnitnik.top>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 51892 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51892: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Don't ignore restriction in
 indent-region-line-by-line
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 19:19:10 +0100

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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> miha <at> kamnitnik.top writes:
>
>> Emacs convention is that low-level functions should respect restriction
>> so that their callers can set restriction according to their needs. For
>> example, 'c-indent-region' is a lower-level function which respects the
>> current restriction and 'indent-region' is a higher-level user command
>> which sets the restriction for lower-level functions, it calls
>> "(widen)".
>
> I think that makes sense, so I've pushed this to Emacs 29.  (But I
> renamed dont-widen to inhibit-widen, since I think that's what we're
> calling arguments like this these days.)

Thanks, but maybe you forgot to actually push to origin/master? I
fetched it just now and the last commit touching indent.el was about two
months ago.

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