From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: k.stevens@ieee.org, ispell-el-bugs@itcorp.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 02:33:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87651u6w4g.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01c4fd95$Blat.v2.2.2$b13f8120@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:40:21 +0200")
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
>> When a region is active in Transient Mark mode, typing M-$
>> unexpectedly checks only one word, and quits. What is more natural
>> to do in such case is to call `ispell-region' on a selected region.
>
> I don't like such a reinterpretation of a word-related command: it's
> counterintuitive. It is okay to do that with commands that by default
> work on the whole buffer, but not with commands that work on a word.
It's very intuitive to work on the active region when the user has
explicitly selected it in Transient Mark mode.
I suggested to add this to `ispell-word' because M-$ is only one
keybinding available to active ispell. So typing M-$ is more
convenient than to execute the command `ispell' which also takes care
about calling `ispell-region' instead of `ispell-buffer' when the
region is active in Transient Mark mode.
Another counterargument for adding this to `ispell-word' is that
`ispell-word' already has other non-word semantics: with a prefix
argument it resumes interrupted spell-checking of a buffer or region.
I guess the reason for adding this non-word functionality to `ispell-word'
was to make M-$ to do more useful things.
> Do we even have other *-word commands that modify their behavior in
> such a way?
`C-h a -word$' displays not too many word-related commands.
Among them there are few that change the word under point:
upcase-word M-u
downcase-word M-l
kill-word M-d
But there is no need to modify their behavior for active regions
in Transient Mark mode because there already exist keybindings to
their corresponding region commands:
upcase-region C-x C-u
downcase-region C-x C-l
kill-region C-w
There is one word-related command that has no keybinding for its
region equivalent:
capitalize-word M-c
but perhaps there is no need to modify it because this is very rarely
used command.
>From all other commands I also have encountered three commands that
operate on non-word parts of the buffer and have no keybindings for
their region equivalents. These commands are `fill-paragraph' (`M-q'),
`eval-last-sexp' (`C-x C-e') and `eval-defun' (`C-M-x'). I suggest to
modify them to call `fill-region' and `eval-region' when a region is
active in Transient Mark mode.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-19 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-18 10:48 ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode Juri Linkov
2005-01-18 11:42 ` David Kastrup
2005-01-19 0:28 ` Juri Linkov
2005-01-18 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-19 0:33 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2005-01-19 4:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-19 7:46 ` Juri Linkov
2005-01-19 9:06 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-01-19 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-19 21:30 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-19 22:03 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-01-20 0:19 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-20 8:18 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-01-20 8:45 ` David Kastrup
2005-01-20 9:44 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-01-21 8:34 ` Kai Großjohann
2005-01-19 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-20 0:40 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-20 21:32 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-20 22:00 ` Geoff Kuenning
2005-01-20 22:17 ` David Kastrup
2005-01-20 22:23 ` Geoff Kuenning
2005-01-20 23:11 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-21 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-22 2:53 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-20 22:43 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-20 22:36 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-21 20:10 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-21 20:44 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-21 21:25 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-20 2:14 ` Richard Stallman
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