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Re: Structural regular expressions
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Structural regular expressions |
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Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:07:22 +0200 |
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>>> extending our notion of region so as to allow it to be
>>> non-contiguous.
>
>> Glancing through the source, this seems like it would be a pretty
>> major change. I guess BEGV and ZV would have to be changed from
>> buffer positions to lists of buffer positions. Then everything
>> that looked at them would be updated to respect this change. And
>> so forth. Or do I have the wrong end of the stick?
>
> Yes, you're confusing the region with the visible part of the buffer:
> BEGV and ZV have to do with narrowing and extending them to discontinuous
> areas would indeed be a major undertaking, whereas the region is just the
> part of the buffer between point and mark.
And what is narrow-to-region supposed to do then?
--
David Kastrup
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