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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rethinking count-words-region
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:46:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hb3jgqk4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r52nw7cx.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sat, 08 Oct 2011 23:04:06 +0300")

Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:

> One problem: when I type `M-=', it fails with:
>
>   Debugger entered--Lisp error: (mark-inactive)
>     call-interactively(count-words-region nil nil)
>
> That's because I customized `mark-even-if-inactive' to `nil'
> (to avoid its dangerous behavior when it's non-nil).

In the past, M-= ignored `mark-even-if-inactive' even though it was
working with the region, so arguably the new behavior is more correct.
It doesn't seem clean to make an exception for this particular usage of
the inactive mark, but not others.

Seems like what you want is `count-words', not `count-words-region'.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-08 20:46 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
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 [this message]
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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