Re: M-=

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> writes:

>>> I've noticed that M-= is no longer operating on the region but on
>>> the whole buffer (i.e. it is bound to count-words instead of
>>> count-words-region).
>>> 
>>> The old behaviour was established for decades and I found it much
>>> more useful. Can we please have it back?
>
>> It still acts on active regions.  Do you have transient-mark-mode
>> disabled explicitly?
>
> I do. Is this no longer a supported configuration?

I wouldn't go that far, but there are some commands that act differently
depending on the "activeness" of a region.  Other examples are `undo'
and `ispell' which undo/spell-check selectively in active regions
defaulting to the complete buffer if there's none.

Bye,
Tassilo