From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Cloos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: M-= Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:30:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20494.21864.117259.772610@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <87obn13l3e.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343410290 13455 80.91.229.3 (27 Jul 2012 17:31:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:31:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ulrich Mueller , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 27 19:31:29 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SuoNo-0005Db-Qz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:31:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33185 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SuoNo-0001vV-2J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:31:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58683) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SuoNl-0001vG-2z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:31:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SuoNk-0002Ln-60 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:31:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com ([207.210.242.212]:42782) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SuoNi-0002Kb-ID; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:31:18 -0400 Original-Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id BCAE840074; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:52 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1343410276; bh=XgalFyD5S7a5uh965WzBqB3SzK/FynWawf9uyAeX+84=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=AZbzDzX+Tu09cTSTwo4bnCxI94avHHw1so+S0cNOfCF7J/OsOBox8L1n9zE2QC7YE O7iAFurk9diVwhSPSreioxixcGKr1EiHQ8AHjRZmrrZUmi0gzZ0fqqEHH6nuiW7jUw bOS2uBUdGpNh7iKXlvauJvfxrC4+RXLRL7/Kv3GA= Original-Received: by carbon.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id AF84636004F; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:45 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87obn13l3e.fsf@gnu.org> (Chong Yidong's message of "Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:05:09 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQAgMAAABinRfyAAAACVBMVEX///8ZGXBQKKnCrDQ3 AAAAJElEQVQImWNgQAAXzwQg4SKASgAlXIEEiwsSIYBEcLaAtMEAADJnB+kKcKioAAAAAElFTkSu QmCC Copyright: Copyright 2012 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Original-Lines: 15 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 207.210.242.212 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:151924 Archived-At: >>>>> "CY" == Chong Yidong writes: CY> Counting words seems like it should fall in the former category CY> (together with M-; and M-$) rather than the latter (with C-w and M-w). CY> But maybe you can explain otherwise? Can we compromize? A new function which acts like the old M-= when transient-mark-mode is nil and like the new if t-m-m is t or lambda? Perhaps by way of a generalized function which embodies that test, in case there are other key commands which similarly could be improved. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6