* use-empty-active-region
@ 2009-08-13 16:17 Andreas Roehler
2009-08-13 17:22 ` use-empty-active-region Stefan Monnier
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From: Andreas Roehler @ 2009-08-13 16:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel; +Cc: Richard M Stallman
Hi,
should have noticed earlier variable `use-empty-active-region' with change
Sun Dec 23 21:45:35 2007 UTC
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.890: +22 -0 lines
Diff to previous 1.890
Sorry commenting it that late.
AFAIR I've seen that kind of things, but always
considered it as being redundant, rather posing
problems than solving it.
Rationale is:
Certainly exists a need to decide if a function should
ignore an empty region or should send an error etc.
But AFAIU it can't be said all-at-once before, so a
variable and/or customization makes no sense here. Its
up to the function called at place, to decide its
behaviour.
Problem for me too: you can't know, how the user has
set it: no function may relay on its setting. Thats
producing conflicts, if different developers assume
different default values to rely upon.
See you've got a bug report already
bug#3873: 23.1.50; docstring of `region-active-p' is nonsensical
IMHO its not just the docstring. Saying "That function
checks the value of `use-empty-active-region' as well."
introduces a third level, i.e. complexity.
So maybe drop it again?
Maybe I miss something?
Thanks a lot all
Andreas
GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of 2009-07-25
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* Re: use-empty-active-region
2009-08-13 16:17 use-empty-active-region Andreas Roehler
@ 2009-08-13 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2009-08-13 17:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andreas Roehler; +Cc: Richard M Stallman, emacs-devel
> AFAIR I've seen that kind of things, but always
> considered it as being redundant, rather posing
> problems than solving it.
[...]
> So maybe drop it again?
I'm in favor of dropping it, indeed.
Stefan
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