From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, rgm@gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 13521@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13521: `sort-lines' on the empty region
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2020 17:51:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a6y4p98g.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3aad96d8-2503-40e8-b684-8ed18a089083@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 5 Sep 2020 07:36:55 -0700 (PDT))
> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 07:36:55 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, rgm@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
> 13521@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> I doubt that someone who has `transient-mark-mode' off
> would ever want commands such as `flush-lines' and
> `sort-lines' to act on the region. And if they did, I
> expect they'd just narrow to it.
Please don't doubt, and please don't impose unnecessary commands on
users who have transient-mark-mode off.
> Anything that works on "the active region" is something
> that makes sense only when `transient-mark-mode' is on
> (IMHO).
The important point here is that sort-lines worked on the region, even
if inactive, before the proposed changes, so restricting it now only
to active regions would be a backward-incompatible change of behavior.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-05 14:51 UTC|newest]
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2020-09-05 14:36 ` bug#13521: `sort-lines' on the empty region Drew Adams
2020-09-05 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-09-05 15:34 ` Stefan Monnier
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2020-09-05 15:22 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-05 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-22 0:53 Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-22 3:19 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-22 3:44 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-22 3:44 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-22 14:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-22 18:19 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-22 19:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-21 1:18 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-21 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-21 7:15 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-21 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-05 11:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-05 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-10 11:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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