From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, rgm@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
13521@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13521: `sort-lines' on the empty region
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2020 14:29:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83imcspim8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=V7cUz2_5Xr8=k6EZbFK96pJu8wpo6uAA+H7ABDYdH0w@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Sat, 5 Sep 2020 11:13:17 +0000)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 11:13:17 +0000
> Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, rgm@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
> 13521@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > So if the user has transient-mark-mode disabled (which is what I do),
> > the command will always sort the entire buffer? Or did I
> > misunderstand something?
>
> I didn't consider that case, but you are correct. The behavior would be
> like that documented in `flush-lines':
>
> Interactively, in Transient Mark mode when the mark is active, operate
> on the contents of the region. Otherwise, operate from point to the
> end of (the accessible portion of) the buffer.
>
> I'm not sure the `flush-lines' behavior makes sense, though. It looks
> like you can't run it on a region without transient-mark-mode. So maybe
> we should fix that as well.
I think we should indeed fix flush-lines as well, yes.
> (Note that `flush-lines' operates from point to point-max, but
> `sort-lines' is proposed here to operate on the entire buffer instead as
> per previous discussion in this bug.)
I guess due to historical reasons?
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-22 0:53 bug#13521: `sort-lines' on the empty region 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 [this message]
2021-05-10 11:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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