From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: DWIM region
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:36:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86vagh9oxo.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6838.1515107716.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> `mark-active` is a normal variable and you're
> perfectly allowed to use it (and modify it if
> you want). But in order to decide whether to
> use the region or not, `use-region-p` is the
> canonical way to test it (and it uses
> `mark-active` internally).
>
> It'd be very difficult for the byte-compiler
> to distinguish those uses of `mark-active`
> which would be better replaced by
> `use-region-p`.
OK!
But ironically, the new and improved function
fails on the intitial use case - which did work
when the region check was scornfully "performed
... in the body of the function"
%% how many books? (count-regexp-hits "@book")
@book{fiberglass-boat-repair-manual,
author = {Allan Vaitses},
ISBN = {0-07-156914-6},
publisher = {International Marine},
title = {The Fiberglass Boat Repair Manual},
year = 1988
}
@book{savage-sword-of-conan-22,
author = {Roy Thomas},
ISBN = 1616558717,
publisher = {Dark Horse},
title = {Savage Sword of Conan 22},
year = 2016
}
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-04 4:12 count regexp hits Emanuel Berg
2018-01-04 5:02 ` Drew Adams
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2018-01-04 18:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-04 21:32 ` DWIM region (was: Re: count regexp hits) Emanuel Berg
2018-01-04 22:18 ` DWIM region Stefan Monnier
2018-01-05 23:18 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-01-04 22:48 ` DWIM region (was: Re: count regexp hits) Kaushal Modi
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2018-01-04 23:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-04 23:14 ` Kaushal Modi
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2018-01-05 2:10 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-08 16:09 ` advice vs hooks in org (was DWIM region) Rusi
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2018-01-04 23:09 ` DWIM region Emanuel Berg
2018-01-04 23:14 ` Stefan Monnier
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2018-01-04 23:36 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2018-01-05 0:19 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-05 20:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-05 22:31 ` Stefan Monnier
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2018-01-06 2:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-06 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
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2018-01-06 18:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-06 20:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-06 22:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-07 3:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-07 3:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-08 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
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2018-01-09 1:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-09 2:30 ` Stefan Monnier
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2018-01-09 4:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-09 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-08 14:11 ` Stefan Monnier
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2018-01-08 20:26 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-08 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-04 23:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-07 5:32 ` DWIM region (was: Re: count regexp hits) Marcin Borkowski
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2018-01-07 6:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-07 7:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
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2018-01-07 20:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-09 5:28 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-01-09 13:42 ` DWIM region Stefan Monnier
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2018-01-10 3:31 ` Emanuel Berg
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2018-01-09 6:20 ` DWIM region (was: Re: count regexp hits) Emanuel Berg
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