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replace-within-highlighted-region - Is it possible to write? or too hard
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replace-within-highlighted-region - Is it possible to write? or too hard? |
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Sun, 21 Jul 2024 01:50:13 +0000 |
Hi - I am thinking of a function where you can highlight region, only lets say
of one color (ie category) and then be able to replace strings or regexp within
those region only.
Functionally, it would be equivalent to narrowing to multiple regions all at
once, based on a regexp and highlighting those regions.
In my previous posts on ediff-buffers, I was thinking that #f or focus provided
such a functionality within each active region and REFINED to it as the new
active region within what was highlighted before it.
In addition, I was thinking that #h provided a functionality whereby you would
be able to ignore those regions (ie matched strings) that would be masked.
The problem with narrow-to-region is that undoing is harder of a macro, whereas
replace can be undone with a single undo.
As it is, the current #f is almost equivalent to show-lines-matching-regexp and
#h is almost equivalent to hide-lines-matching-regexp.
Tx
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