From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Fabian Ezequiel Gallina <galli.87@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Keep region active after command
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:16:49 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrkvtshq.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikxUx2j033w5S0gpsQ3u1DevxPpCyums2+XDmYi@mail.gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:36:05 +0100")
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>> No. Having a function that just sets a variable to nil is silly.
>
> ?? Please give an argument!
Because the user may as well just write (setq foo nil)...
If "foo" were obscure/weird, then maybe a set-to-nil function with a
clearer name could be useful useful, but in this case the variable's
meaning is quite clear.
-miles
--
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
[Iris Murdoch]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-20 1:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-19 18:12 Keep region active after command Fabian Ezequiel Gallina
2011-02-19 21:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-19 21:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-19 22:26 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-19 22:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-20 1:16 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2011-02-20 1:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-20 3:59 ` Miles Bader
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