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Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode
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Juri Linkov |
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Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Jan 2005 02:33:19 +0200 |
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"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Juri Linkov <address@hidden>
>> When a region is active in Transient Mark mode, typing M-$
>> unexpectedly checks only one word, and quits. What is more natural
>> to do in such case is to call `ispell-region' on a selected region.
>
> I don't like such a reinterpretation of a word-related command: it's
> counterintuitive. It is okay to do that with commands that by default
> work on the whole buffer, but not with commands that work on a word.
It's very intuitive to work on the active region when the user has
explicitly selected it in Transient Mark mode.
I suggested to add this to `ispell-word' because M-$ is only one
keybinding available to active ispell. So typing M-$ is more
convenient than to execute the command `ispell' which also takes care
about calling `ispell-region' instead of `ispell-buffer' when the
region is active in Transient Mark mode.
Another counterargument for adding this to `ispell-word' is that
`ispell-word' already has other non-word semantics: with a prefix
argument it resumes interrupted spell-checking of a buffer or region.
I guess the reason for adding this non-word functionality to `ispell-word'
was to make M-$ to do more useful things.
> Do we even have other *-word commands that modify their behavior in
> such a way?
`C-h a -word$' displays not too many word-related commands.
Among them there are few that change the word under point:
upcase-word M-u
downcase-word M-l
kill-word M-d
But there is no need to modify their behavior for active regions
in Transient Mark mode because there already exist keybindings to
their corresponding region commands:
upcase-region C-x C-u
downcase-region C-x C-l
kill-region C-w
There is one word-related command that has no keybinding for its
region equivalent:
capitalize-word M-c
but perhaps there is no need to modify it because this is very rarely
used command.
>From all other commands I also have encountered three commands that
operate on non-word parts of the buffer and have no keybindings for
their region equivalents. These commands are `fill-paragraph' (`M-q'),
`eval-last-sexp' (`C-x C-e') and `eval-defun' (`C-M-x'). I suggest to
modify them to call `fill-region' and `eval-region' when a region is
active in Transient Mark mode.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode, Juri Linkov, 2005/01/18
- Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode, David Kastrup, 2005/01/18
- Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/01/18
- Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode,
Juri Linkov <=
- Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/01/19
- Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode, Juri Linkov, 2005/01/19
- Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode, Kim F. Storm, 2005/01/19
- Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/01/19
- Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/01/19
- Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode, Kim F. Storm, 2005/01/19
- Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/01/19
- Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode, Kim F. Storm, 2005/01/20
- Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode, David Kastrup, 2005/01/20
- Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode, Kim F. Storm, 2005/01/20