From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: M-= Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:28:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87r4s18nc8.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <20494.21864.117259.772610@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <87a9ypa49s.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <20494.30028.452527.521116@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343125732 1632 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2012 10:28:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:28:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 24 12:28:52 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1StcMG-00079B-7S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:28:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55531 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StcMF-0007dB-Ab for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:28:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57419) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StcM8-0007d6-Dl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:28:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StcM7-0003YR-Ff for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:28:44 -0400 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]:49620) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StcM7-0003YN-9n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:28:43 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4165FD2232; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:28:42 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7oU_bShKYWoM; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:28:41 +0200 (CEST) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender noch tassilo@member.fsf.org Original-Received: from thinkpad.tsdh.de (tsdh.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.67.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C359DD2227; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:28:41 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Followup-To: Ulrich Mueller , emacs-devel@gnu.org 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") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 141.26.64.15 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:151856 Archived-At: Ulrich Mueller 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