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bug#18088: 24.4.50; `region-extract-function': (1) NEWS, (2) return valu
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#18088: 24.4.50; `region-extract-function': (1) NEWS, (2) return value |
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Sat, 30 Apr 2016 00:31:11 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Variable `region-extract-function' was apparently added in Emacs 24.4.
> It is used in several key places that affect killing or deleting text.
>
> 1. It should be called out in NEWS, saying what user-visible behavior
> its presence changes.
>
> 2. The doc string points out that, depending on the value of its
> argument, its return value is (a) significant and specified or (b)
> insignificant and undefined.
>
> This is the first time I have seen this for an Emacs function
> distributed with GNU Emacs. Certainly it is the first time I've
> seen such odd behavior documented.
>
> This does NOT seem like the kind of thing we should be doing - let
> alone *encouraging* by defining a variable whose value will be
> user-defined functions that have such twisted behavior.
>
> Is this unusual design necessary? Seems to be sloppy, error prone,
> and an invitation to bad programming habits by users.
It seems like a quite complicated thing, but as it has been in a release
now, I think it's too late to do anything about that.
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