From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: beginning-of-defun / end-of-defun mark set message Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 02:54:34 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345618519 8582 80.91.229.3 (22 Aug 2012 06:55:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:55:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 22 08:55:19 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T44qS-0007oC-Qw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:55:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39261 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T44qO-0004UY-LE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 02:55:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="78fb7125a45724f15e21604c94a7d968"; logging-data="32681"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+gVluhtQwrEC5JrD1Y1leM" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XMSmF5Mvg7VJlt9meLGpRGT4jG0= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:194097 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86462 Archived-At: In article , drain wrote: > What's the point in leaving the second arg to push-mark nil (i.e., NOMSG)? > > I ended up disabling it (push-mark () t) in mods of these two functions, but > before I embrace the change, I'd like to know the thinking behind leaving > the message in, in the case of these two functions. It makes sense > elsewhere, particularly when the user is calling push-mark directly > (C-space), and it's not embedded into a larger function body. In general, commands that set the mark should display a message, especially if this isn't the command's primary purpose. It's the same reason that beginning/end-of-buffer display the message. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***