On 2010-03-05, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote:

> It would be useful to support this feature because we could perform a 
> replace-all within a selection and quickly achieve the desired result
> without clobbering the rest of the document.

Agreed. 

But maybe better making this even more generic:

My beloved Jed text editor has a generic "narrow" feature that limits
all editing operations to the current selection until undone by "widen".
(I think this originates from Emacs.)

This could be usefull for spell-checking or other operations as well.

Günter

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