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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rethinking count-words-region
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:22:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ehyof1f3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874nzk5xvc.fsf@stupidchicken.com>

> From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:51:19 -0400
> 
> On reflection, I think the Bug#9429 change to count-words-region is
> misguided.  If we want to be consistent with other parts of Emacs, like
> ispell-word/ispell-region, we need two separate commands:
> 
>  - A count-*-region command that counts in the region, using
>    (interactive "r").  Even if Transient Mark mode is active and the
>    region is not active, it counts in the inactive region.  This is like
>    ispell-region.
> 
>  - A count-* command that usually counts in the buffer.  If
>    use-region-p, it counts in the region.  This is like ispell-word.

That'd be fine with me.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-08  6:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-07 15:41 Rethinking count-words-region Chong Yidong
2011-10-07 16:46 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-08 16:53   ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 18:00     ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-07 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 20:51   ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-07 20:55     ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 17:58       ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-08 18:11         ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 18:23           ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 18:25             ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 18:29               ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-08 19:04                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-08 19:28                 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 18:40             ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-08  6:22     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-10-07 20:29 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-07 20:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-08 16:52 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 17:51   ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-08 20:04   ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 20:46     ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 21:09       ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 20:49     ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 21:12       ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-08 21:33         ` Drew Adams
2011-10-09  0:57           ` chad
2011-10-09  1:05             ` Drew Adams

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