Re: multi-region.el --- Mapping commands over multiple active regions.

[Stefan Monnier]

> Here's one idea.  Suppose that region-beginning returned a list of
> region beginnings, and region-end returned a list of region ends.
> That would be a clean way to tell a command that there are
> multi-regions in effect.

> This could be done for (interactive "R"), whereas use
> of (interactive "r") would simply repeat the command on each
> sub-region in the list.

I completely agree.  As a matter of fact I suggested something along the
same lines some years ago on gnu.emacs.help (I especially remember the
(interative "r") automatically looping over all the sub-regions).


        Stefan