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bug#64185: proposal for new function: copy-line
From: |
Mattias Engdegård |
Subject: |
bug#64185: proposal for new function: copy-line |
Date: |
Sat, 1 Jul 2023 12:07:15 +0200 |
1 juli 2023 kl. 11.53 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> In a way that doesn't make any significant changes in
> rectangle--duplicate-right, for example.
That's just the part of duplicate-dwim that lives in rect.el.
> The difference is that (a) duplicate-line was a feature which was
> explicitly requested by the bug report which caused its
> implementation, and (b) the changes for duplicate-line were much
> simpler and easier to reason about.
They weren't really simpler, but that's not the point. It's about finishing a
job properly.
I certainly understand the motivation behind the bug and see that it applies to
duplicate-dwim as well.
We usually don't respond to requests by narrowly implementing just what the
reporter asked about and nothing else.