bug#58904: [PATCH] Handle buffer streams that operate on lines, pages, etc.

[Stefan Kangas]

Philip,

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> The commentary for stream.el mentions that the following streams are
>> supported:

(That's the `stream' package on GNU ELPA, to be clear.)

>>> ;; - buffers (by character)
>>> ;; - buffers (by line)
>>> ;; - buffers (by page)
>>
>> But I couldn't find anything beyond charachter-streams.  The following
>> patch would implement that and more, by re-using thingatpt to define any
>> kind of stream one would want.
>
> Copying in Nicolas Petton, in case he has any comments.

Nicolas didn't seem to have any comments, so please go ahead and install
this if you think it makes sense.

I guess you could also bump the version, if you think that makes sense.

>> -;; Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> +;; Copyright (C) 2016-2020, 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

It's okay to write it like this: 2016-2023