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: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:02:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ir4lqz2r.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194016443 18686 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2007 15:14:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:14:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc, andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, stephen@xemacs.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 02 16:14:05 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 1InyDd-0005gM-JH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:13:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1InyDS-0007yf-Hw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:13:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1InyDO-0007xc-HL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:13:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1InyDJ-0007rp-U9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:13:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1InyDJ-0007rX-NS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:13:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iny3j-00087s-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:03:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iny30-0003NS-5D; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:02:58 -0400 In-reply-to: <87ir4lqz2r.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:18:52 +0900) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Error: This connection is not (no longer?) in the cache. 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:82360 Archived-At: Well then why not pick _another_ good name which is still helpful to the code reader? David Kastrup suggested `region-selected-p', which seems intuitive and helpful in the same way that region-active-p is. I won't argue against `region-selected-p', even though it seems less on the mark than `region-active-p'.