From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: region-active-p Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:48:56 +0900 Message-ID: <87lk9wseuf.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <200710191149.59775.andreas.roehler@online.de> <87bqau3iq5.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192978171 24909 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2007 14:49:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:49:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , andreas.roehler@online.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 21 16:49:31 2007 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 1Ijc7M-00010p-So for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:49:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ijc7F-0003a2-1T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:49:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ijc7B-0003Wt-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:49:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ijc78-0003TM-TN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:49:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ijc78-0003T8-PC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:49:14 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp02.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.72]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ijc6y-0006gS-PU; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:49:05 -0400 Original-Received: from 203-216-97-240.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.97.240] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1Ijc6t-0004mi-DG; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:48:59 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 15ACA2F4B; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:48:56 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun\, 21 Oct 2007 09\:56\:40 -0400") Original-Lines: 15 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:81369 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> The name `region-active-p' >> implies that it doesn't matter whether the region is empty. > > Not necessarily. I don't consider an empty region as being really "active". And in many cases an empty-but-"active" region can be pretty confusing if you don't realize what's going on... (e.g., undo with an empty-but-"active" region used to be _extremely_ confusing, though that seems to have been fixed). -Miles -- I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono album; no rhyme or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and then it's over. --Ian Wolff