Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: > That's why I said "rule of thumb": there can be tradeoffs. > In practice 99% of Emacs commands modify only a single contiguous chunk > of text, so the tradeoff comes into play fairly rarely.
It would be nice if this advice were added to the relevant docstrings. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>