GNU bug report logs - #13521
`sort-lines' on the empty region

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:56:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch, wontfix

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 13521 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13521: `sort-lines' on the empty region
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:59:51 -0500

> The current behavior of `sort-lines' on the empty region is to do
> nothing.

I think that's the right thing to do.

> I often find that I want to sort whole buffers at the time,
> and I expect `sort-lines' to do just that, before remembering I have
> to mark the whole buffer first.

That seems to be considering a different case: not the case of an empty
region, but the case where there's no active region.
Currently, this case signals an error, but I think I agree it makes
sense to let it apply to the whole buffer if there is no active region.


        Stefan
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