From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: region-active-p Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:53:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200710191149.59775.andreas.roehler@online.de> <200710212122.57935.andreas.roehler@online.de> <200710231053.28105.andreas.roehler@online.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193162313 24963 80.91.229.12 (23 Oct 2007 17:58:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:58:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, miles@gnu.org To: Andreas =?iso-8859-15?q?R=F6hler?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 23 19:58:33 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 1IkO1D-0004ty-Br for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:58:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IkNx5-0006Yr-BP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:54:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IkNx2-0006Y8-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:54:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IkNwu-0006Wt-WC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:53:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IkNwu-0006Wo-Rh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:53:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IkNwt-0002pu-25 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:53:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IkNwi-0004ED-0J; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:53:40 -0400 In-reply-to: <200710231053.28105.andreas.roehler@online.de> (message from Andreas =?iso-8859-15?q?R=F6hler?= on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:53:26 +0200) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:81580 Archived-At: > When commands in XEmacs call this, do they also test > for a nonempty region? Or do they operate on the region > when it is empty? No. What does "no" mean in this context? (Please don't ask which part of "no" I don't understand.) AFAIU `zmacs-region-extent' checks for a physical extend, it may be nil or have a value, for example I got What does "checks for a physical extend" mean?