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: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:05:24 +0100 Message-ID: <200712111805.25511.andreas.roehler@online.de> References: <200710191149.59775.andreas.roehler@online.de> <200712111252.26116.andreas.roehler@online.de> 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 1197393144 31190 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2007 17:12:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman , Reiner Steib , Juri Linkov , Stefan Monnier , Stephen Turnbull , Miles Bader To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 11 18:12:31 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 1J28eb-0007rP-Ur for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:12:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J28eK-00063D-1t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:12:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J28YR-0002TZ-Kq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:05:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J28YP-0002SZ-Bs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:05:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J28YP-0002SS-20 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:05:57 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.183]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J28YH-0007it-35; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:05:49 -0500 Original-Received: from noname (p54BE83F3.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.190.131.243]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu7) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML2xA-1J28Xz1LFq-0003Jw; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:05:33 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18nT4KBJdR6fVdrA4yb2+OMDcesymughYMQmYP 1+cM8OLUjOS5Gb/kmrj8Qc5rzDnlUHcXYk6DA4POiOV+ZbAOvk aFixiTyDRdcleKkh8eSQA== 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:85052 Archived-At: Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2007 15:55 schrieb Stefan Monnier: > > But why introduce new diffs? If there is a need I will > > change my mind. > > Diferences of behavior are perfectly fine. The differences we do not > want are differences which break elisp code (i.e. packages). I see no > indication that this kind of difference will ever break elisp code. > > > Stefan > A bug then may occur at XEmacs-side if someone codes the need for an exclusive `mark-active'/region-exists-p with `region-active-p useroption'. XEmacs will not know about that option, only reads `region-active-p' and decision may be wrong. XEmacs will always check for an extend if `region-active-p' is written and maybe return `nil' in cases, where it's not TRT. Andreas R=F6hler