Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On Tue 03 Sep 2024 at 04:32pm GMT, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
>
>>
>> +(defcustom kill-region-dwim nil
>> +  "Behaviour when `kill-region' is invoked without an active region.
>> +If set to nil (default), then an error occurs and nothing is killed.  If
>> +set to `emacs-word', then kill a the last word as defined by the current
>> +major mode.  If set to `unix-word', then kill the last word in the style
>> +of a shell like Bash, disregarding the major mode."
>> +  :type '(choice (const :tag "Kill a word like `backward-kill-word'" emacs-word)
>> +                 (const :tag "Kill a word like Bash would" unix-word)
>> +                 (const :tag "Do not kill anything" nil))
>> +  :group 'killing)
>
> I think I'm missing something here.  When it's nil and there is no
> *active* region, but there is a region, it should kill that, surely?
> With or without TMM.
> I very regularly kill inactive regions (e.g. after M->).

That is not an inherent problem, we can adjust the patch by