From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13521: `sort-lines' on the empty region Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2020 17:51:43 +0300 Message-ID: <83a6y4p98g.fsf@gnu.org> References: <<20130122085354.75ced82538551655e724e0ea@gmail.com>> <> <> <> <> <<83mu2objro.fsf@gnu.org>> <> <<83imdcbgc5.fsf@gnu.org>> <> <<83imcspim8.fsf@gnu.org>> <3aad96d8-2503-40e8-b684-8ed18a089083@default> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33818"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, rgm@gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 13521@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 05 16:52:13 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kEZY5-0008i4-7x for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 16:52:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56934 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kEZY4-0005sW-9Z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 10:52:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38122) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kEZXu-0005s7-EL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 10:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:60484) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kEZXu-00072T-4S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 10:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kEZXu-0001Qh-3A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 10:52:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2020 14:52:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13521 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 13521-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13521.15993175205488 (code B ref 13521); Sat, 05 Sep 2020 14:52:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13521) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Sep 2020 14:52:00 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43797 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kEZXs-0001QS-9Y for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 10:52:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56224) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kEZXq-0001QB-80 for 13521@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 10:51:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34972) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kEZXk-00072C-Fe; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 10:51:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3736 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kEZXj-00079J-2B; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 10:51:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <3aad96d8-2503-40e8-b684-8ed18a089083@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 5 Sep 2020 07:36:55 -0700 (PDT)) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:187254 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 07:36:55 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, rgm@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > 13521@debbugs.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. > 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.