From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas =?iso-8859-15?q?R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: region-active-p Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:15:39 +0100 Message-ID: <200712110915.41130.andreas.roehler@online.de> References: <200710191149.59775.andreas.roehler@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197360987 17568 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2007 08:16:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Reiner Steib , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov , Stefan Monnier , Stephen Turnbull , Miles Bader To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 11 09:16:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J20I8-0007KG-0m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:16:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J20Hq-00058A-02 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:16:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J20Hl-000530-BG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:16:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J20Hi-0004zs-QW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:16:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J20Hi-0004zd-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:16:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J20Ha-00033I-8f; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:16:02 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J20HZ-0007L2-4m; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:16:01 -0500 Original-Received: from noname (p54BE83F3.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.190.131.243]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKwtQ-1J20HR2TBG-0008Ck; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:15:54 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/1tU0oLqeeahnT8Pd+DUJYP+/tgDHzhTmQ7pi HkTgroBHzJPnI/MNi9S4pTBXj0Amtmugv3PUom9cQ9ew3lsFYs 0blB2lD6qrlwh2Kd0AdVw== X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:85030 Archived-At: Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2007 00:08 schrieb Richard Stallman: > I came up with a better solution to the question of what region-active-p > should do when the region is empty: make it a user option. > I think that will make people happy, because I expect most users will > have the same preference for all the commands. > > I will install it when I have a good connection. > > That certainly wouldn't be wrong on the logical level, however can't help in original case, reduces compatibilty rather than enhances them. My idea was to make the writing of compatible code a little bit easier, to get rid of one of these (featurep 'xemacs) forms occasionally. If you could ask Juri to install his answer we will all live in a better world. :) Andreas R=F6hler