From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: DWIM region Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 09:11:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86shbmcldx.fsf@zoho.com> <86d12pcvgj.fsf@zoho.com> <86d12pb988.fsf_-_@zoho.com> <864lo1b4rh.fsf@zoho.com> <86h8s08262.fsf@zoho.com> <86zi5r7mnw.fsf@zoho.com> <86k1wuws6g.fsf@zoho.com> <86r2r2uzpu.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515420654 23930 195.159.176.226 (8 Jan 2018 14:10:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 14:10:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 08 15:10:50 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 1eYY8W-0005l4-Uo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 15:10:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36730 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYYAW-0003mT-7a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 09:12:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55007) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYYA3-0003mI-SK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 09:12:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYYA0-000535-CG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 09:12:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=52336 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYYA0-000524-4H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 09:12:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eYY7o-00033k-DQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 15:10:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:nnmH98+p0dnJt047vNM2ANAZ1Qg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:115616 Archived-At: > So can that really be incorporated into the > interactive form in a neat way, or does one > have to live with - for the rest of one's life > - that the region check is actually done in the > function body which otherwise is > strongly disencouraged? This is like a DWIMish function which does different things based on context, and indeed, in that case there's not much benefit to moving things into the interactive form. Stefan