From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
Cc: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: prefix-region
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:15:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8764rlxva8.fsf@xemacs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc339e4a0510250659i1f095281k@mail.gmail.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:59:00 +0900")
Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com> writes:
> 2005/10/25, Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>:
>> I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with those functions, only
>> that they are not as useful for this particular purpose as
>> `prefix-region' is.
>
> Which purpose though?
Prefixing a region with an arbitrary string. It comes up a lot.
> I suspect 90% of the time, `comment-dwim' (M-;)
It won't work when editing snippets of code in mail messages or when
editing a language for which you don't have a major mode handy.
> or `indent-rigidly' are really what's wanted, and do the job better
> (for instance `comment-dwim' handles mail quoting and commenting-out
> of code just about perfectly); adding arbitrary prefixes seems kinda
> rare.
I don't think it's all that rare. I've used the function a lot over
the years, and I know other XEmacs users who have found it useful.
Writing a replacement one is non-trivial.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-25 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-24 20:28 prefix-region Hrvoje Niksic
2005-10-24 21:39 ` prefix-region Andreas Schwab
2005-10-24 22:45 ` prefix-region Hrvoje Niksic
2005-10-25 8:24 ` prefix-region Romain Francoise
2005-10-25 9:54 ` prefix-region Hrvoje Niksic
2005-10-25 13:59 ` prefix-region Miles Bader
2005-10-25 19:15 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
2005-10-25 19:41 ` prefix-region Stefan Monnier
2005-10-25 19:47 ` prefix-region Romain Francoise
2005-10-25 20:29 ` prefix-region Edward O'Connor
2005-10-25 21:12 ` prefix-region Andreas Schwab
2005-10-25 21:24 ` prefix-region Hrvoje Niksic
2005-10-31 1:14 ` prefix-region Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-31 8:54 ` prefix-region Hrvoje Niksic
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