Re: region-active-p

[Miles Bader]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> I propose to add an optional argument NONEMPTY to region-active-p
>> which means "return nil if the region is empty".  How about it?
>
> I expect the opposite makes more sense:
...
> This is because in most cases we've seen we want to treat empty regions as
> inactive.

I agree, but is this sufficiently compatible with xemacs?

[I don't think they actually have strictly the same behavior -- if the use
of empty regions is vanishingly rare, then who cares...]

-Miles

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