From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rethinking count-words-region
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:51:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874nzk5xvc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ty7kfzed.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:08:10 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> What will such a change do to those who (like yours truly) disable
> transient-mark-mode, which AFAIK means the region is never active? I
> do want to be able to count lines (if not words) in the region.
>
> At the very least, the command should behave like before if
> transient-mark-mode is disabled.
On reflection, I think the Bug#9429 change to count-words-region is
misguided. If we want to be consistent with other parts of Emacs, like
ispell-word/ispell-region, we need two separate commands:
- A count-*-region command that counts in the region, using
(interactive "r"). Even if Transient Mark mode is active and the
region is not active, it counts in the inactive region. This is like
ispell-region.
- A count-* command that usually counts in the buffer. If
use-region-p, it counts in the region. This is like ispell-word.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-07 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-07 15:41 Rethinking count-words-region Chong Yidong
2011-10-07 16:46 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-08 16:53 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 18:00 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-07 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 20:51 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-10-07 20:55 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 17:58 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-08 18:11 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 18:23 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 18:25 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 18:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-08 19:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-08 19:28 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 18:40 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-08 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 20:29 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-07 20:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-08 16:52 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 17:51 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-08 20:04 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 20:46 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 21:09 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 20:49 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 21:12 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 21:33 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-09 0:57 ` chad
2011-10-09 1:05 ` Drew Adams
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