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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Message #23 received at 13521 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>, 13521 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13521: `sort-lines' on the empty region
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:04:02 -0500

>> 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.
> flush-lines, keep-lines instead operate on all lines after point.

Yes, we have an inconsistency in this respect: some commands use "the
whole buffer" and others use "everything after point".  Whichever choice
we make for sort-lines, it will be inconsistent with some of the
existing commands ;-)

I personally prefer the "whole buffer", but whoever makes the change
gets to make the choice.


        Stefan
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