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: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:36:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83imdcbgc5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnf6ch6CBN13opEWDVnZYY-TaT236xg21Qg2KjWuUVz+w@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:15:31 -0700)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:15:31 -0700
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, xfq.free@gmail.com, rgm@gnu.org,
> 13521@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > How frequently did you see a buffer in Emacs with no region in it?
> > IME, it takes about 2 commands since buffer creation to have a region
> > in it. So I predict users to be tripped by this feature quite a lot:
> > they will think there's no region, invoke the command, and get some
> > arbitrary region sorted. Requiring them to always provide the region
> > avoids this pitfall, since the user is forced to make sure the region
> > is where he or she wants it. And marking the whole buffer is just 2
> > key-presses away.
> >
> > So I think this change will annoy more than help.
>
> Sorry, the correct terminology I should have used is "active region".
> This is as tested by `use-region-p'. Compare the test I introduce also
> to the one in `flush-lines', where I lifted it from.
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?
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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 [this message]
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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