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: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>
To: 13521 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13521: `sort-lines' on the empty region
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:53:54 +0800

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

Wouldn't it be convenient to change the behavior of `sort-lines' so
that it sorts the whole buffer if no region is marked? Or is this
inconsistent with how other region-operating functions works?

See:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-01/msg00492.html
-- 
Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XueFuqiao
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