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From: charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 30502-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30502: 26.0.91; electric-pair-mode documentation
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 21:00:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r2pjidxh.fsf@aurox.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mv07bk01.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 17 Feb 2018 19:31:42 +0200)

> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 19:31:42 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> Thanks, I documented that now.  In the doc string of the mode as well.

Thanks a lot for the improvement.  With that, I'll close this bug.

> > By "this functionality" I mean auto-inserting a matching delimeter at
> > the mark when a delimeter character is typed, when electric-pair-mode
> > is on.  The region has to be active for this to work, therefore
> > transient-mark-mode must be on (even if temporarily).  I suggest
> > adding a command that wraps point and mark with some given delimeters,
> > regardless of whether the region is active.
> 
> We have "C-u C-x C-x" that turns on transient-mark-mode temporarily.
> Isn't that enough?  If not, the issue is general, not specific to this
> mode.

"C-u C-x C-x" does work well enough, but Emacs normally also provides
commands that explicitly do some subset of what a region-aware command
would do in the same situation.  For example, if you want to comment
out the region with transient-mark-mode switched off, you can either
type:

C-u C-x C-x [exchange-point-and-mark]
M-; [comment-dwim]

or more memorably, clearly, and without moving point,

M-x comment-region RET

I like having both options available, but the latter is preferable IMO.
Hence we could have some command that would be used like,

M-x wrap-region RET ( RET

to wrap a region explicitly.





      reply	other threads:[~2018-02-17 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-17 16:07 bug#30502: 26.0.91; electric-pair-mode documentation Charles A. Roelli
2018-02-17 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-17 16:51   ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-02-17 17:31     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-17 20:00       ` Charles A. Roelli [this message]

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