From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#41934: reverse-region no longer works Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 14:31:25 +0300 Message-ID: <83zh8zxpf6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lfkkz2wr.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7v8z0sd.fsf@gnu.org> <83eeqcz00n.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="1889"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 41934@debbugs.gnu.org To: Richard Copley Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 19 13:32:09 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 1jmFFh-0000O6-Ng for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 13:32:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37200 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jmFFg-0006Yv-Bg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 07:32:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45084) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jmFFa-0006Yf-Av for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 07:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:43701) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jmFFa-0001iv-1P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 07:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jmFFZ-00034h-St for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 07:32:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 11:32:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 41934 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 41934-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B41934.159256630711074 (code B ref 41934); Fri, 19 Jun 2020 11:32:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41934) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Jun 2020 11:31:47 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55247 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jmFFK-0002sK-Mp for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 07:31:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58936) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jmFFH-0002mH-MF for 41934@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 07:31:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41046) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jmFFC-0001ez-4R; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 07:31:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3894 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jmFFA-0002nL-Vh; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 07:31:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Copley on Thu, 18 Jun 2020 20:28:15 +0100) 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:182180 Archived-At: > From: Richard Copley > Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 20:28:15 +0100 > > My opinion is: > > (a) no, it doesn't make sense to complain 'user-error: There are no > full lines in the region' when there is one full line. > > (b) although we could still throw an error in that case (with a more > appropriate message), I don't think it would help any users. > > And indeed, I don't think raising the error is helpful even when there > are zero lines to be reversed. It's probably harmless, but conceivably > it could complicate somebody's hypothetical keyboard macro, for little > gain. Fair enough. Here's the conundrum: I'd like to install your proposed change, but the sum total of your contributions to Emacs already exceeds the amount we can accept without legal papers. So, unless you are willing to sign the papers now, we cannot install your change.