From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: M-=
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:28:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4s18nc8.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20494.30028.452527.521116@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (Ulrich Mueller's message of "Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:13:32 +0200")
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> writes:
>>> I've noticed that M-= is no longer operating on the region but on
>>> the whole buffer (i.e. it is bound to count-words instead of
>>> count-words-region).
>>>
>>> The old behaviour was established for decades and I found it much
>>> more useful. Can we please have it back?
>
>> It still acts on active regions. Do you have transient-mark-mode
>> disabled explicitly?
>
> I do. Is this no longer a supported configuration?
I wouldn't go that far, but there are some commands that act differently
depending on the "activeness" of a region. Other examples are `undo'
and `ispell' which undo/spell-check selectively in active regions
defaulting to the complete buffer if there's none.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-24 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-24 7:57 M-= Ulrich Mueller
2012-07-24 9:37 ` M-= Tassilo Horn
2012-07-24 10:13 ` M-= Ulrich Mueller
2012-07-24 10:28 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2012-07-27 4:05 ` M-= Chong Yidong
2012-07-27 10:59 ` M-= Ulrich Mueller
2012-07-27 14:57 ` M-= Tassilo Horn
2012-07-27 16:24 ` M-= Ulrich Mueller
2012-07-27 17:32 ` M-= Tassilo Horn
2012-07-29 3:33 ` M-= Chong Yidong
2012-07-27 17:30 ` M-= James Cloos
2012-07-27 19:02 ` M-= Andreas Röhler
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2012-07-24 9:03 M-= Dmitry Gutov
2012-07-24 9:24 ` M-= Ulrich Mueller
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