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

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Message #49 received at 13521 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: xfq.free <at> gmail.com, rgm <at> gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se,
 monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 13521 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13521: `sort-lines' on the empty region
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2020 17:51:43 +0300

> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 07:36:55 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: xfq.free <at> gmail.com, rgm <at> gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
>         13521 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I doubt that someone who has `transient-mark-mode' off
> would ever want commands such as `flush-lines' and
> `sort-lines' to act on the region.  And if they did, I
> expect they'd just narrow to it.

Please don't doubt, and please don't impose unnecessary commands on
users who have transient-mark-mode off.

> Anything that works on "the active region" is something
> that makes sense only when `transient-mark-mode' is on
> (IMHO).

The important point here is that sort-lines worked on the region, even
if inactive, before the proposed changes, so restricting it now only
to active regions would be a backward-incompatible change of behavior.

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