From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc,
andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: region-active-p
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:59:30 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo4pg7ww7x.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85ve8nzt8m.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed\, 31 Oct 2007 07\:35\:37 +0100")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>> Personally I think we should just use region-active-p, with non-empty
>> test by default -- the incompatibility with xemacs is minor, and I
>> think it's far more important that the code in Emacs be clear. I'm
>> sure package authors can cope in those (very few) cases where it
>> actually makes any difference.
>
> But the standard test _is_ (and transient-make-mode mark-active) and has
> been so for eternities. And it will stay that way for external packages
> for a long time to come. So we will get inconsistent behavior.
Who cares? In most cases, the new behavior is _better_.
In other words, it seems likely that the number of times a user is
_helped_ because the new behavior is more intuitive, will exceed the
number of times a user is confused because the behavior is not 100% the
same as it was previously.
-Miles
--
My books focus on timeless truths. -- Donald Knuth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-31 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-19 9:49 region-active-p Andreas Röhler
2007-10-19 20:57 ` region-active-p Juri Linkov
2007-10-21 7:25 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-10-21 13:56 ` region-active-p Stefan Monnier
2007-10-21 14:48 ` region-active-p Miles Bader
2007-10-21 19:22 ` region-active-p Andreas Röhler
2007-10-23 7:12 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-10-23 8:53 ` region-active-p Andreas Röhler
2007-10-23 17:53 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-10-24 7:33 ` region-active-p Andreas Röhler
2007-10-25 2:10 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-10-24 19:34 ` region-active-p Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-10-25 9:01 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-10-26 5:38 ` region-active-p Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-10-26 8:17 ` region-active-p Andreas Röhler
2007-10-26 9:21 ` region-active-p Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-10-26 11:03 ` region-active-p Andreas Röhler
2007-10-26 21:53 ` region-active-p Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-10-27 2:28 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-10-27 5:20 ` region-active-p Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-10-27 6:17 ` region-active-p Miles Bader
2007-10-27 7:57 ` region-active-p Andreas Röhler
2007-10-28 6:55 ` region-active-p Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-10-28 7:32 ` region-active-p Miles Bader
2007-10-28 12:15 ` region-active-p Johan Bockgård
2007-10-28 21:07 ` region-active-p Stefan Monnier
2007-10-28 21:07 ` region-active-p Stefan Monnier
2007-10-27 23:41 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-10-28 1:21 ` region-active-p Stefan Monnier
2007-10-28 1:27 ` region-active-p Miles Bader
2007-10-28 2:43 ` region-active-p Stefan Monnier
2007-10-29 0:11 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-10-29 1:40 ` region-active-p Stefan Monnier
2007-12-10 23:08 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-12-11 8:15 ` region-active-p Andreas Röhler
2007-12-11 9:57 ` region-active-p Juri Linkov
2007-12-11 11:52 ` region-active-p Andreas Röhler
2007-12-11 14:55 ` region-active-p Stefan Monnier
2007-12-11 17:05 ` region-active-p Andreas Röhler
2007-12-11 18:16 ` region-active-p Stefan Monnier
2007-12-11 9:07 ` region-active-p Andreas Röhler
2007-12-11 9:59 ` region-active-p Juri Linkov
2007-12-11 11:50 ` region-active-p Andreas Röhler
2007-10-28 7:29 ` region-active-p Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-10-28 21:06 ` region-active-p Stefan Monnier
2007-10-29 0:11 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-10-30 0:12 ` region-active-p Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-10-30 8:22 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-10-30 8:59 ` region-active-p David Kastrup
2007-10-31 7:46 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-10-30 15:03 ` region-active-p Drew Adams
2007-10-30 19:03 ` region-active-p Stefan Monnier
2007-10-30 19:49 ` region-active-p Drew Adams
2007-10-30 20:15 ` region-active-p Stefan Monnier
2007-10-30 20:28 ` region-active-p Drew Adams
2007-10-30 21:30 ` region-active-p Stefan Monnier
2007-10-30 23:43 ` region-active-p Miles Bader
2007-10-31 6:35 ` region-active-p David Kastrup
2007-10-31 7:59 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2007-11-03 21:08 ` region-active-p Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-10-31 7:47 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-10-31 7:47 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-10-31 8:00 ` region-active-p Miles Bader
2007-10-31 23:58 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-11-01 2:33 ` region-active-p Miles Bader
2007-11-01 2:55 ` region-active-p Stefan Monnier
2007-11-01 10:06 ` region-active-p Kim F. Storm
2007-11-01 15:46 ` region-active-p Drew Adams
2007-11-01 17:56 ` region-active-p David Kastrup
2007-11-01 23:08 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-11-01 19:04 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-11-02 0:18 ` region-active-p Miles Bader
2007-11-02 15:02 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-11-02 21:39 ` region-active-p Stefan Monnier
2007-11-02 22:31 ` region-active-p Miles Bader
2007-11-03 20:48 ` region-active-p Richard Stallman
2007-11-05 6:48 ` region-active-p Miles Bader
2007-10-29 8:24 ` region-active-p Andreas Röhler
2007-10-22 6:09 ` region-active-p Andreas Röhler
2007-10-21 17:18 ` region-active-p Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-10-21 20:54 ` region-active-p Reiner Steib
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