From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fill-paragraph-or-region
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:57:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlk9z4396.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IikbC-00006P-6r@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri\, 19 Oct 2007 01\:40\:42 -0400")
> It seems like a bad idea to me: fill-paragraph is already complex enough:
> what's the benefit of conflating the two?
> The benefit is to keep `fill-paragraph' as the name of the command
> that M-q runs. That name is better even though it now has the feature
> of doing something different for certain interactive calls.
> The complexity added to `fill-paragraph' is a handful of lines.
> Not significant.
OK, actually the consistency with the other commands that obey the region (if
transient-mark-mode is set and the region is active) is a good argument.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-19 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-18 16:04 fill-paragraph-or-region Stefan Monnier
2007-10-19 0:34 ` fill-paragraph-or-region Juri Linkov
2007-10-19 17:41 ` fill-paragraph-or-region Richard Stallman
2007-10-19 5:40 ` fill-paragraph-or-region Richard Stallman
2007-10-19 13:57 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-10-19 15:23 ` fill-paragraph-or-region David Reitter
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