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Narrowing a region in emacs

Handy emacs command which will limit your operations (and visibility) to a selected region. Good for regional search/replace and the like.

  1. Mark your region
  2. C-x n n / narrow-to-region
  3. Do what you are going to do
  4. C-x n w / widen
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