From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:40:27 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200501200040.j0K0eRd15973@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <87zmz7m2qr.fsf@jurta.org> <01c4fd95$Blat.v2.2.2$b13f8120@zahav.net.il> <87651u6w4g.fsf@jurta.org> <01c4fde1$Blat.v2.2.2$f4f851c0@zahav.net.il> <87hdldkgim.fsf@jurta.org> <01c4fe50$Blat.v2.2.2$b25e9bc0@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1106182196 13289 80.91.229.6 (20 Jan 2005 00:49:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:49:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, k.stevens@ieee.org, ispell-el-bugs@itcorp.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 20 01:49:49 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CrQWD-00010k-00 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 01:49:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CrQiC-0004iL-4o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:02:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CrQgf-00042P-9S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:00:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CrQgY-0003wU-4C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:00:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CrQgX-0003uN-GX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:00:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CrQNl-0001vR-AJ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:41:05 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0K0f49N016732; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:41:04 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j0K0eRd15973; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:40:27 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: eliz@gnu.org In-reply-to: <01c4fe50$Blat.v2.2.2$b25e9bc0@zahav.net.il> (eliz@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:32400 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32400 Eli Zaretskii wrote (in response to Juri Linkov); > Word commands executed on active regions can be interpreted as > commands that should operate on every word in the region. I won't expect that, and I think Emacs doesn't have this convention anywhere else. I agree. Sometimes a numeric argument of 0 is used to indicate operating on the region, if a zero numeric argument otherwise would make no sense (like `M-0 C-x a {g,l}'). If we bind C-u M-$ (or M-$ with any numeric argument) to ispell if there is no ispell session to resume, then there would be very little reason to give a special meaning to a zero numeric argument to M-$ however, and such a special meaning could potentially confuse people. They might then also believe that M-3 M-$ checked the next three words, M--3 M-$ the previous three and so on (which we could actually implement, but I personally do _not_ believe that this would be very useful). Sincerely, Luc.