From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, rgm@gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 13521@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13521: `sort-lines' on the empty region
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 08:22:58 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7cfc062e-05b2-43f1-8714-19ebd955b88c@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<83a6y4p98g.fsf@gnu.org>>
> > I doubt that someone who has `transient-mark-mode' off
> > would ever want commands such as `flush-lines' and
> > `sort-lines' to act on the region. And if they did, I
> > expect they'd just narrow to it.
>
> Please don't doubt, and please don't impose unnecessary commands on
> users who have transient-mark-mode off.
Please don't claim that I imposed any commands on anyone.
The region is nearly always present and usually nonempty.
A user with `transient-mark-mode' off would typically
(IMHO) be bothered if `flush-lines' started always acting
on the region (it would be almost always: whenever there's
a mark in the buffer and the region is nonempty).
Do you disagree?
> > Anything that works on "the active region" is something
> > that makes sense only when `transient-mark-mode' is on
> > (IMHO).
>
> The important point here is that sort-lines worked on the region, even
> if inactive, before the proposed changes, so restricting it now only
> to active regions would be a backward-incompatible change of behavior.
Yes, sorry; I agree about `sort-lines'. That is not
the case for `flush-lines' and `keep-lines'.
And I think "the important point here" is that a command
that behaves differently when the region is active should
NOT act on the region when `transient-mark-mode' is off.
Why? Because the notion of "active region" applies only
when `transient-mark-mode' is on. Any special behavior
provided only when the region is active is, well, only
for when the region is active. And that's never the case
when `transient-mark-mode' is on.
This was not the case for `sort-lines', as you point out.
It did NOT, and does not, behave differently when the
region is active from when it is inactive.
next parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-05 15:22 UTC|newest]
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2020-09-05 15:22 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-09-05 15:37 ` bug#13521: `sort-lines' on the empty region Eli Zaretskii
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2020-09-05 14:36 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-05 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-05 15:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-22 0:53 Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-22 3:19 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-22 3:44 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-22 3:44 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-22 14:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-22 18:19 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-22 19:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-21 1:18 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-21 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-21 7:15 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-21 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-05 11:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-05 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-10 11:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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