Re: avoid narrow-to-region (was: Re: replace-regexp)

[Emanuel Berg]

Yuri Khan wrote:

>>       (sort-subr nil
>>                  #'forward-line
>>                  #'end-of-line
>>                  nil nil
>>                  (lambda (_ __) (zerop (random 2)) )))))
>
> Note that this is not a suitable sorting predicate.
> It violates all axioms of a strict weak ordering

That's right, I am. But we well know that the reason most of
us are here is because of our affinity for disobedience.

> * Consistency: If (f a b) returns t once, it must return
> t when called again with the same arguments. [...]

But here, we want to randomize _every time_.

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