From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: region-active-p Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:35:37 +0100 Message-ID: <85ve8nzt8m.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87myu0w4ld.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193816376 3788 80.91.229.12 (31 Oct 2007 07:39:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:39:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc, andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, Stefan Monnier , "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Drew Adams To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 31 08:39:37 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 1In8Aq-0003nt-DD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:39:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1In8Ag-0003tA-SO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:39:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1In8Ac-0003qk-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:39:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1In8Ac-0003pc-03 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:39:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1In8Ab-0003pV-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:39:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1In8Ab-0000Gk-N1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:39:21 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1In7E3-0001S3-1R; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:38:51 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 54F381C464E3; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:35:38 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87myu0w4ld.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:43:58 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:82189 Miles Bader writes: > Personally I think we should just use region-active-p, with non-empty > test by default -- the incompatibility with xemacs is minor, and I > think it's far more important that the code in Emacs be clear. I'm > sure package authors can cope in those (very few) cases where it > actually makes any difference. But the standard test _is_ (and transient-make-mode mark-active) and has been so for eternities. And it will stay that way for external packages for a long time to come. So we will get inconsistent behavior. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum