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Subject: Re: Fixing C-g; zmacs-region woes
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> I have a gripe about the behaviour of C-g.  I like the fact that it
> deactivates the region if a region is active, otherwise signals QUIT.
> I hate the fact that it does this in a stupid fashion.

> For example, I mark a region, and press `M-:'.  Then I remember I
> didn't really want to press M-:, but M-x.  I press C-g, but I lose the
> region.  I must press C-g one more time, and then press `C-x C-x' to
> reactivate the region, followed by the desired M-x.

Agreed, this is an annoyance.

 ...

> The only thing that remains to be done is to add the WINDOW argument
> to all the region-* functions (instead of BUFFER, as used currently),
> and use it intelligently (as in the keyboard-quit example).  I'd like
> to give it a try one of these days.  I'd like to hear opinions on how
> much work it would be.

All of the functions in XEmacs which take a gratuitous BUFFER parameter
(versus their Emacs counterparts) are scheduled to have the BUFFER
parameter removed once we get RMS' with-current-buffer ported.  This
includes the region-* functions you are referring to.
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