Re: [emms-help] [Yoni Rabkin] Re: Patch: emms-playlist-tracks-in-region

[Yoni Rabkin]

Mike Kazantsev <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 20:23:15 +0100
> Fran Burstall <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Have a look at branch emms-playlist-limit for a re-write of
>> emms-playlist-limit.el.  This is my first piece of elisp for public
>> consumption so criticism very welcome and almost certainly necessary.
>
> It's not an elisp complaint, but more of a feature request:
>
> As I wanted to try out limiting feature, looking at playlist buffer,
> first thing that came to mind is to limit it by regexp going over what
> is displayed there.
>
> That's probably the most relevant info, encompassing several fields
> that user cares about, which is why emms-track-description-function
> is set to display these.
>
> And unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an option for that,
> only for filtering over attributes of internal track representation.
> Unless I just missed it, that is...

There is no problem implementing such a feature. But since many people
(myself included) modify `emms-track-description-function', such as
feature must not make any assumptions about what is being displayed,

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