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changeset 99994:178782cd97e1
Explain why region-active-p is often not the best function to use.
| author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> |
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| date | Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:08:44 +0000 |
| parents | 26f94bce1bab |
| children | 6f62aec59b3d |
| files | etc/NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Thu Nov 27 17:07:25 2008 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Thu Nov 27 17:08:44 2008 +0000 @@ -1244,9 +1244,10 @@ an active region that they should operate on. *** `region-active-p' returns non-nil when Transient Mark mode is -enabled and there is an active region. This is NOT the best function -to use to test whether a command should operate on the region instead -of the usual behavior -- for that, use `use-region-p'. +enabled and the mark is active. Most commands that act specially on +the active region in Transient Mark mode should use `use-region-p' +instead of `region-active-p', because `use-region-p' obeys the new +user option `use-empty-active-region' (see Editing Changes, above). +++ *** If a command sets `transient-mark-mode' to (only . OLDVAL), that