From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TAB when the region is active Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:15:55 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87sl54hnhw.fsf@jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190597138 23540 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2007 01:25:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:25:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 24 03:25:32 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 1IZchX-0005tK-FC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:25:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZchU-00079t-Sz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:25:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IZchQ-00079V-NC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:25:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IZchO-00079J-Lg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:25:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZchO-00079G-Ht for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:25:22 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IZchO-00037X-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:25:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IZchJ-0006jQ-CQ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:25:19 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Sun\, 23 Sep 2007 18\:09\:32 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: e35cef5ed21d82303c208435479e4a86 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1513 [September 21 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 25 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:79652 Archived-At: >> What would be useful to do in text modes is to make a similar change for >> M-q (`fill-paragraph'). When the region is active in transient-mark-mode, >> then M-q would call `fill-region' instead of `fill-paragraph'. > > I'm not so sure. There are several possibilities. A case could be made for > any of them to play the role you see for `fill-region': > > . fill-region - Fill each paragraph in the region. > . fill-region-as-paragraph - Fill the region as one paragraph. > > . fill-individual-paragraphs - Fill paragraphs of uniform > indentation within the region. > > . fill-nonuniform-paragraphs - Fill paragraphs within the region, > allowing varying indentation within each. The last three are special cases of `fill-region' that are rarely used. They can be invoked exactly as now, i.e. with M-x fill-region-as-paragraph RET What I propose is to make it easier to call the most often used command `fill-region' on the active region. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/