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 14:29:03 +0300 Message-ID: <83imcspim8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20130122085354.75ced82538551655e724e0ea@gmail.com> <83mu2objro.fsf@gnu.org> <83imdcbgc5.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27163"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, rgm@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 13521@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 05 13:30:11 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 1kEWOZ-0006yg-Hj for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 13:30:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45916 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kEWOY-0005L4-EM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 07:30:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58888) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kEWOQ-0005Kn-Iw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 07:30:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:58324) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kEWOQ-0000xh-9W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 07:30:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kEWOQ-0003lW-5H for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 07:30:02 -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 11:30:02 +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=B13521.159930536214402 (code B ref 13521); Sat, 05 Sep 2020 11:30:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13521) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Sep 2020 11:29:22 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41637 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kEWNl-0003kE-Ov for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 07:29:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48680) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kEWNj-0003k0-9s for 13521@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 07:29:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33206) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kEWNd-0000ry-Gn; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 07:29:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3122 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kEWNb-0007ag-9f; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 07:29:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Sat, 5 Sep 2020 11:13:17 +0000) 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:187205 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > 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 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?