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Re: how to redo align-regexp?


From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: Re: how to redo align-regexp?
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 05:30:56 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> >>> Then I mark a different region and attempt a
> >>> repeat-complex-command, but
> >>> the command has the old region beg/end in it, and thus won't do
> >>> what I
> >>> want.
>
> That's a bug (well, some may say it's a limitation of the current hack
> that's used, but the result is the same).

I've seldom used that command, but I think the current behavior is also
sometimes useful: when the regexp you used didn't bring the result you
expected, you can now undo, and `repeat-complex-command' with a
different regexp without re-marking the region.


Michael.



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