From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Shift selection using interactive spec Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:56:54 +0200 Message-ID: <85fxu8nli1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87k5k69p92.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87skyo5bvk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87skynrin5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87iqzju0lq.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <851w5xx5ya.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87ve3993dt.fsf@jurta.org> <47EA37C7.7080502@gmail.com> <47EADCC4.2000207@gmail.com> <87iqz7wx7n.fsf@jurta.org> <851w5vti9y.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87tziqqtd0.fsf@jurta.org> <853aqarp06.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <8763v5k8zq.fsf@jurta.org> <85ve35pqss.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <873aq958zc.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206899844 17644 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2008 17:57:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:57:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, jared@hpalace.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 30 19:57:54 2008 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 1Jg1mx-0007bh-QC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:57:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg1mL-0007ET-Vm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:57:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg1mG-00079Z-RS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg1mF-000751-9V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg1mE-00074e-Ux for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:57:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.48]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jg1mA-0008MJ-8H; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:57:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.14]) by mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A8727B69C; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:56:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-16.arcor-online.net (mail-in-16.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.56]) by mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59C881143C9; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:56:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-086-009.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.86.9]) by mail-in-16.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 399DB236E46; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:56:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id F07831C4CE00; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:56:54 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <873aq958zc.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:52:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6479/Sun Mar 30 19:35:42 2008 on mail-in-16.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:93913 Archived-At: Juri Linkov writes: >>> Shift-selection is not an inherent part of function definition since a >>> function can normally work with or without this feature either way. >> >> How is this different from any interactive call specification? In >> particular, from, say, the "*" flag in an interactive call string? > > If is known beforehand that a command can't work on read-only buffers. > But shift-selection can be freely turned on/off. Again: can you provide an example where it makes sense for a user to turn it off selectively? We don't need to bother about hypothetical functionality for which there is no real use case. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum