From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display.texi: (,) isn't documented. Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:34:48 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87zm3896ev.fsf@jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181425720 7722 80.91.229.12 (9 Jun 2007 21:48:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 21:48:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 09 23:48:39 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 1Hx8nT-0001xo-7Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:48:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hx8nS-0000mG-PP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:48:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hx8mP-0000Bv-N1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:47:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hx8mN-0000B0-EB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:47:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hx8mN-0000Av-9r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:47:27 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hx8mM-00050k-OD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:47:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Hx8mK-00034B-K3; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:47:25 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Sat\, 9 Jun 2007 13\:35\:31 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 485d3c07c5d69b41d1cad5b5ab8b481e X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1133 [June 09 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:72548 Archived-At: >> What about my original proposal (and code): >> 1. Show the region size (highlighted with region face) when active. >> >> I don't see that that is very useful. The region is highlighted >> itself. > > Yes, but its size is not obvious, especially if part of it is off-screen. `M-=' (count-lines-region) is easy to type. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/