unofficial mirror of bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 33383@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33383: 26; `count-words-region'
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 14:42:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftne5adh.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67fda5a6-8217-47ee-ae7f-fde4427433e0@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 14 Nov 2018 07:47:27 -0800 (PST)")

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> Please consider a minor enhancement: Change the message from this:
>
> (count-words--message "Region" start end) to this:
>
> (count-words--message
>   (if (use-region-p) "Active region" "Inactive region")
>   start
>   end)
>
> It's not so obvious that the report is for the region even when
> inactive, and many Emacs users will nowadays think of the region only as
> the active region.  So if the region is inactive and they see a non-zero
> number they might wonder (and need to consult the doc string to
> understand).

I think this command is the wrong place to teach people about what a
region is, and how it pertains to the "active region mode" (which I
think uses unfortunate terminology, but that's a different matter).

So I'm closing this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-10 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-14 15:47 bug#33383: 26; `count-words-region' Drew Adams
2019-07-10 12:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-07-10 14:28   ` Drew Adams

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87ftne5adh.fsf@mouse.gnus.org \
    --to=larsi@gnus.org \
    --cc=33383@debbugs.gnu.org \
    --cc=drew.adams@oracle.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).