Using the modernize-use-using fixes with clang-tidy 19.1.5 transformed the code
   typedef std::vector<std::pair<int, int>>  // start and end chunks for cells in a line
       VCellStartEnd;                        // (end is chunk beyond end of line)to
    using VCellStartEnd = std::vector<std::pair<int, int>>;  // (end is chunk beyond end of line)
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