Subject: Re: bug#42865: 28.0.50; Add new 'copy-region-quietly' defcustom

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:37:57 +0200

Sean Whitton <[email-masked]> writes:

> +(defcustom copy-region-quietly nil
> +  "Whether the copying of an inactive region is indicated visually.
> +If nil, behave as per the documentation of `indicate-copied-region'.
> +`no-swap' means inhibit briefly swapping point and mark.
> +`no-message' means inhibit displaying a message.
> +Any other value means inhibit both swapping and message-displaying."
> +  :type '(choice :tag "Copy region quietly"
> +                 (const :tag "Default behavior" nil)
> +                 (const :tag "Don't swap point and mark" no-swap)
> +                 (const :tag "Don't display a message" no-message)
> +                 (const
> +                  :tag
> +                  "Don't swap point and mark or display a message"
> +                  t))
> +  :group 'killing)

Thanks for the patch.

The change looks reasonable to me, but I'm not quite sure of how useful
this is.  Does many people want to tweak the behaviour of this command
to this extent?

Perhaps somebody else on the bug tracker has opinions here.

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