From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented.
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:44:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1HxgRN-0008HF-CL@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMOEEODCAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Can you tell me how, in practice, you recognize from the displayed
> length that the region is wrong?
1. Small region of expected length: Equivalent of M-=. Check the length of a
string of chars. Maybe select with the mouse - no need to hit the keyboard
for M-=.
This does not explain how you can tell whether the length displayed
is right or wrong, or when that is useful.
3. Large region: Be aware when the region is humongous (e.g. before you kill
That might be useful.
Perhaps it would be useful to display the size of the region
when the region is not entirely visible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-11 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-05 23:19 display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented Alan Mackenzie
2007-06-06 16:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-06 17:36 ` mode line: 1) indicate region size, if active; 2) highlight column # if > limit Drew Adams
2007-06-06 17:44 ` David House
2007-06-06 18:19 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-06 18:26 ` David House
2007-06-06 18:41 ` chad brown
2007-06-08 7:12 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 23:13 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-23 13:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-23 19:52 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-24 14:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-06 19:44 ` display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented David Kastrup
2007-06-06 20:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-06 20:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-06 21:27 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-07 15:12 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-07 15:17 ` David House
2007-06-07 15:30 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-07 15:40 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-07 15:42 ` David House
2007-06-07 15:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-07 15:44 ` David House
2007-06-07 15:45 ` Thomas Hühn
2007-06-07 15:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-07 16:15 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-06-07 17:18 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-07 17:28 ` Thomas Hühn
2007-06-07 17:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-07 19:39 ` Jay Belanger
2007-06-07 20:17 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-07 18:13 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-06-07 20:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-06-07 21:20 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-07 21:33 ` Davis Herring
2007-06-08 14:24 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-08 15:09 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-09 20:24 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-09 20:35 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-09 21:34 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-10 15:02 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-10 23:24 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-06-11 9:44 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-11 17:21 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-13 8:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-13 8:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-10 13:18 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-10 15:15 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-11 3:40 ` Miles Bader
2007-06-11 5:32 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-11 9:44 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-06-11 9:50 ` David House
2007-06-11 17:30 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-08 7:11 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-08 7:26 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-06-08 8:15 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-08 9:42 ` David House
2007-06-09 9:45 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-08 8:11 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-08 8:38 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-08 20:05 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-06-08 8:48 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-06 21:57 ` Stephen Berman
2007-06-07 5:05 ` Werner LEMBERG
2007-06-10 8:35 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-06-10 14:27 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-06 23:53 ` Jay Belanger
2007-06-07 0:07 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-07 0:08 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-08 12:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-06-07 8:23 ` tomas
2007-06-07 17:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-06-08 8:26 ` tomas
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