From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: region-active-p Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:11:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200710191149.59775.andreas.roehler@online.de> <87hckeigev.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <200710261017.33513.andreas.roehler@online.de> <877ilai63w.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87bqal2kxb.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <877il7puib.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193616730 7132 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2007 00:12:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:12:10 +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 Mon Oct 29 01:12:11 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 1ImIEk-0005AS-MG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:12:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ImIEb-0000vP-Id for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:12:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ImIE3-0000hd-1M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:11:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ImIE1-0000h8-Jh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ImIE1-0000h5-DZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ImIDz-0007hw-FV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ImIDw-00077J-5K; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:11:20 -0400 In-reply-to: <877il7puib.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) 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:82005 Archived-At: I just double-checked. What we want for Emacs is closer to your `region-active-p'. We want it to test for Transient Mark mode with the mark active. > I propose to add an optional argument NONEMPTY to region-active-p > which means "return nil if the region is empty". How about it? No, thank you. That makes the name inaccurate in XEmacs usage, is not backwardly compatible I don't know how to understand "backwardly compatible". I designed this to make it an upward compatible change for you. Does "backwardly compatible" mean something else?