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29.4; repunctuate-sentences ignores NO-QUERY

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Message #77 received at 72704 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: briandg <at> gmail.com, joseph <at> breatheoutbreathe.in, 72704 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#72704: 29.4; repunctuate-sentences ignores NO-QUERY
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 09:40:37 +0300

> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: juri <at> linkov.net, briandg <at> gmail.com, 72704 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
> 	joseph <at> breatheoutbreathe.in
> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 22:32:30 -0400
> 
>   > If there is an active region, repunctuate-sentences works on the
>   > region.  The operation from point to EOB is only if there's no active
>   > region, which the above two commands don't support at all.
> 
> I stand corrected.  However, what other commands have this
> region or pont-to-EOB behavior?

The commands that I mentioned operate on the entire buffer or
paragraph, I think.

> What is the reason to prefer this behavior for it?

Well, repunctuate-sentences is a variant of query-replace (both
conceptually and implementation-wise), and query-replace does operate
from point to EOB if there's no active region.  And I think it makes
sense for commands that replace text.

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