From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas =?iso-8859-15?q?R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: region-active-p Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:07:43 +0100 Message-ID: <200712111007.45109.andreas.roehler@online.de> References: <200710191149.59775.andreas.roehler@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197364120 26650 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2007 09:08:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:08:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Reiner Steib , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov , Stefan Monnier , Stephen Turnbull , Miles Bader To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 11 10:08:50 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 1J216Y-0004np-6K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:08:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J216G-0000o6-0u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:08:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J216B-0000jl-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:08:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2166-0000aM-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:08:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2166-0000a2-Il for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:08:14 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J215x-0006En-MN; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:08:06 -0500 Original-Received: from noname (p54BE83F3.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.190.131.243]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu3) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKxQS-1J215l3Rbf-0001TQ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:07:55 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+dN+E3BIDgObL7KFUMAiq6zC2+/v3OPl+mFPT Hvr1gaoc3a4kfMAKVf1IpT9PcrmzC25qPD9gbmAQa9+30/96qu wdLCGg2CegDzdLzTGVn9Q== 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:85031 Archived-At: Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2007 00:08 schrieb Richard Stallman: > I came up with a better solution to the question of what region-active-p > should do when the region is empty: make it a user option. > I think that will make people happy, because I expect most users will > have the same preference for all the commands. > > I will install it when I have a good connection. > > To be more precisely: For the special case "region exist but empty" XEmacs has already the function `region-exists-p'. `region-active-p' fails in that case and I see no reason to make things more complicated at this point. It's quite easy to follow in both cases, remaining differences caused by routines below will not be remarkable by users as was stated correctly. Andreas R=F6hler