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bug#13521: `sort-lines' on the empty region
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#13521: `sort-lines' on the empty region |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:59:51 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> The current behavior of `sort-lines' on the empty region is to do
> nothing.
I think that's the right thing to do.
> I often find that I want to sort whole buffers at the time,
> and I expect `sort-lines' to do just that, before remembering I have
> to mark the whole buffer first.
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.
Stefan