From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: prefix-region Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:41:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87hdb6accw.fsf@xemacs.org> <87u0f68rfk.fsf@xemacs.org> <87zmoy0zsf.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <87y84h7whw.fsf@xemacs.org> <8764rlxva8.fsf@xemacs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130269528 11499 80.91.229.2 (25 Oct 2005 19:45:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:45:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, snogglethorpe@gmail.com, Romain Francoise , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 25 21:45:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EUUhJ-0003kL-Sq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:43:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EUUhI-0001R3-Fz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:43:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EUUh6-0001Qs-T6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:42:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EUUh6-0001QZ-5E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:42:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EUUh4-0001QL-Vw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:42:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EUUg7-0005Ew-Mw; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8832CF598; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:41:46 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6214AC00A; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:41:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 9E79AE6BD4; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:41:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Hrvoje Niksic In-Reply-To: <8764rlxva8.fsf@xemacs.org> (Hrvoje Niksic's message of "Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:15:43 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.851, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.05, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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:44846 Archived-At: >> or `indent-rigidly' are really what's wanted, and do the job better >> (for instance `comment-dwim' handles mail quoting and commenting-out >> of code just about perfectly); adding arbitrary prefixes seems kinda >> rare. > I don't think it's all that rare. Agreed: I'd guess that about 80% of my uses of string-rectangle would be covered by prefix-region. OTOH since I'm used to string-rectangle, I probably wouldn't bother to use prefix-region. (I've even found myself using string-rectangle instead of M-;) Stefan