GNU bug report logs - #55234
28.1; replace-string in rectangle regio

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paulo Sousa <de.sousa.paulus <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 23:34:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.1

Fixed in version 29.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 55234 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Paulo Sousa <de.sousa.paulus <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 55234 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55234: 28.1; replace-string in rectangle regio
Date: Tue, 03 May 2022 09:57:32 +0300

> I opened a rectangle region with `C-x SPC`. I traversed left and down
> (i.e. the rectangle was started in the top-right corner). Then I
> replaced region and not all the occurrences were replaced. Only the
> occurrences between the starting and ending position of the cursor and
> inside the region.

Thanks for the bug report.  Actually this is a more fundamental problem.
`replace-string` just uses `region-beginning` and `region-end`.
So the question is why `region-beginning` and `region-end`
don't return rectangular region boundaries.  The second question is
why `region-beginning` and `region-end` are implemented in C,
so it's more tricky to fix them to use rectangular region boundaries.
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