From: Richard Lawrence <rwl@recursewithless.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 51320@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51320: 26.1; kill-region does not ignore its first two args if region is active
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 20:57:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877de6p5o2.fsf@aquinas.rewrittenlocator.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83v91q8gfl.fsf@gnu.org>
>> From: Richard Lawrence <rwl@recursewithless.net>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:29:11 +0200
>>
>> In a function I'm writing, I tried to call kill-region like this:
>>
>> (and (use-region-p) (kill-region nil nil t))
>>
>> with its first two arguments being nil, because the docstring says:
>>
>> "Supply two arguments, character positions BEG and END indicating the
>> stretch of text to be killed. If the optional argument REGION is
>> non-nil, the function ignores BEG and END, and kills the current
>> region instead."
>>
>> But in fact, if both BEG and END are nil as in my function call,
>> kill-region doesn't ignore them but throws an error, since its first two
>> lines are:
>>
>> (unless (and beg end)
>> (user-error "The mark is not set now, so there is no region"))
>>
>> This was surprising to me, since I expected these values to be ignored.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> The error is thrown because there's no region in the buffer where you
> invoke this. The fact that you pass BEG and END nil is not the reason
> for the error.
Forgive me, I'm no expert, but that doesn't sound right to me, for two
reasons:
1) In my example, kill-region is only called if use-region-p returns t.
(I also checked that (point) and (mark) return non-nil in this
context with the debugger.)
2) Literally the first and only thing that kill-region does before
throwing the error is check whether BEG and END are non-nil. The error I
see is the one in the unless clause quoted above.
Am I missing something?
--
Best,
Richard
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-21 12:29 bug#51320: 26.1; kill-region does not ignore its first two args if region is active Richard Lawrence
2021-10-21 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-21 18:57 ` Richard Lawrence [this message]
2021-10-21 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-22 9:34 ` Richard Lawrence
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