From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?q?R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: region-active-p Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:57:41 +0200 Message-ID: <200710270957.42361.andreas.roehler@online.de> References: <200710191149.59775.andreas.roehler@online.de> <87bqal2kxb.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87y7dp13pn.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193471856 1475 80.91.229.12 (27 Oct 2007 07:57:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:57:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman , Reiner Steib , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov , Stefan Monnier , Stephen Turnbull To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 27 09:57:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IlgY3-0001fd-FW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:57:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlgXu-0007zN-8O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:57:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlgXq-0007xQ-RR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:57:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlgXp-0007w2-Oy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:57:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlgXp-0007vz-LH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:57:21 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IlgXh-00078e-Vc; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:57:14 -0400 Original-Received: from noname (p54BE8281.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.190.130.129]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKwtQ-1IlgXY0OrI-00023s; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:57:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: <87y7dp13pn.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/yxx03TLs1nsB0pQqXPUS5RE4oVe11odR7pra IoJO24FehEhRuCV2mNTQwrfXq0q0/KyMjp6jdoHz+4b9DwB/6I NuvFTCwaRLjEp2NqZfNdA== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:81831 Archived-At: Am Samstag, 27. Oktober 2007 08:17 schrieb Miles Bader: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > > `region-active-p' does not check that the region has non-zero length. > > > > My point is that whether it makes sense to operate on a region of > > length zero depends on the operation, so `region-active-p' doesn't try > > to decide. > > So, which operations _don't_ check? Well, I assume there are some which > don't check, but probably should, so maybe it's more reasonable to ask, > which operations _shouldn't_ check? > > -Miles After all, checking in Juri's proposal would ease writing GNU code and enhance compatibility. May he get a green light? Andreas R=F6hler