From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TAB when the region is active
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:15:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sl54hnhw.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACKEAJCDAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun\, 23 Sep 2007 18\:09\:32 -0700")
>> What would be useful to do in text modes is to make a similar change for
>> M-q (`fill-paragraph'). When the region is active in transient-mark-mode,
>> then M-q would call `fill-region' instead of `fill-paragraph'.
>
> I'm not so sure. There are several possibilities. A case could be made for
> any of them to play the role you see for `fill-region':
>
> . fill-region - Fill each paragraph in the region.
> . fill-region-as-paragraph - Fill the region as one paragraph.
>
> . fill-individual-paragraphs - Fill paragraphs of uniform
> indentation within the region.
>
> . fill-nonuniform-paragraphs - Fill paragraphs within the region,
> allowing varying indentation within each.
The last three are special cases of `fill-region' that are rarely used.
They can be invoked exactly as now, i.e. with M-x fill-region-as-paragraph RET
What I propose is to make it easier to call the most often used command
`fill-region' on the active region.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-24 1:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-14 21:59 TAB when the region is active Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-16 5:35 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-17 4:09 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-17 22:24 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-17 22:40 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-09-17 22:47 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-17 23:28 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-19 3:42 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-19 5:11 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-19 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-19 14:34 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-19 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-20 1:54 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-20 13:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-22 1:00 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-24 0:07 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-24 1:09 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 1:15 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2007-09-24 3:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-29 23:18 ` M-q when the region is active (Re: TAB when the region is active) Juri Linkov
2007-09-30 12:54 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-06 22:43 ` M-$ when the region is active (Re: M-q " Juri Linkov
2007-09-24 18:20 ` TAB when the region is active Richard Stallman
2007-09-24 2:37 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-24 18:20 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-17 23:13 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-16 18:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2007-09-16 19:17 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2007-09-16 20:32 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-17 3:59 ` Richard Stallman
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