From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>,
andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: region-active-p
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:56:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv6410tvwd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IjVBw-00070Q-TK@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun\, 21 Oct 2007 03\:25\:44 -0400")
>> What about to introduce `region-active-p' and/or
>> `region-exists-p' for
>> (and mark-active transient-mark-mode)
> I think this is a good idea. Instead of putting everywhere
> a complex condition:
> I agree. But we need to decide whether (not (eq (region-beginning)
> (region-end))) should be part of it.
I think it should be part of it. All the commands I can think of that use
this kind of feature make the command work on the selected region instead of
just "at point". So an empty region isn't very meaningful for them.
> The name `region-active-p'
> implies that it doesn't matter whether the region is empty.
Not necessarily. I don't consider an empty region as being really "active".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-21 13:56 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 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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 ` region-active-p Miles Bader
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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