From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: region-active-p Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:03:27 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193756792 7363 80.91.229.12 (30 Oct 2007 15:06:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:06:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc, andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, miles@gnu.org To: , "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 30 16:06:33 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 1ImsfL-00014I-6k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:06:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ImsfB-0007nD-Jf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:05:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Imsep-0007RX-7b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:05:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Imsen-0007PC-Cf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:05:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Imsen-0007P3-7S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:05:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ImseZ-0000cq-Kc; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l9UF5C6F030854; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:05:12 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id l9UF5Afj030507; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:05:10 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw2-141-144-74-2.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3329949441193756604; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:03:24 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-to: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Importance: Normal X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:82142 > I'm not wedded to any particular name. Possible names are > `region-usable-p' and `region-nonempty-p'. > Neither one fits quite right. Whether the region is active is more > central to the meaning than whether it is nonempty. > Perhaps `region-overrides-p' is a good name. The decision is whether > the region should override the normal meaning of the command. > I invite other suggestions. transient-region-p? BTW, what's the reason for creating this, again? I thought this was about harmonizing with XEmacs somehow. Now that doesn't seem possible. What's wrong with just (and mark-active transient-mark-mode)? that's short and leaves no doubt about the meaning.