From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: DWIM region Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:36:35 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86vagh9oxo.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86shbmcldx.fsf@zoho.com> <86d12pcvgj.fsf@zoho.com> <86d12pb988.fsf_-_@zoho.com> <864lo1b4rh.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515109120 28999 195.159.176.226 (4 Jan 2018 23:38:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 23:38:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 05 00:38:36 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eXF5n-0007Fw-NM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:38:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eXF7m-0007sT-SK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 18:40:38 -0500 X-Received: by 10.28.23.149 with SMTP id 143mr106484wmx.22.1515108995907; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:36:35 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!b72no307736wmd.0!news-out.google.com!k126ni2274wmg.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zRXoCvQ6k9fneBfYPnB6lQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:hAMFh8q0bAfVM+mq8UInUCvFMnM= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221470 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115587 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > `mark-active` is a normal variable and you're > perfectly allowed to use it (and modify it if > you want). But in order to decide whether to > use the region or not, `use-region-p` is the > canonical way to test it (and it uses > `mark-active` internally). > > It'd be very difficult for the byte-compiler > to distinguish those uses of `mark-active` > which would be better replaced by > `use-region-p`. OK! But ironically, the new and improved function fails on the intitial use case - which did work when the region check was scornfully "performed ... in the body of the function" %% how many books? (count-regexp-hits "@book") @book{fiberglass-boat-repair-manual, author = {Allan Vaitses}, ISBN = {0-07-156914-6}, publisher = {International Marine}, title = {The Fiberglass Boat Repair Manual}, year = 1988 } @book{savage-sword-of-conan-22, author = {Roy Thomas}, ISBN = 1616558717, publisher = {Dark Horse}, title = {Savage Sword of Conan 22}, year = 2016 } -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573