> From: Philip Kaludercic <phil...@posteo.net> > Cc: spwhit...@spwhitton.name, stefankan...@gmail.com, acora...@gnu.org, > j...@linkov.net, r...@gnu.org, 69...@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:02:45 +0000 > > Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes: > > > If we don't introduce a new command, then what will be the modified > > behavior of kill-region? Specifically, when will it delete the last > > word? > > If the new user option is non-nil /and/ there is no region. If > `kill-region-dwim' is nil (default), then nothing should change. > > > > > In Emacs buffers, it is very rare not to have the mark, so it > > sounds like the Bash-like behavior will very rarely if ever available, > > no? > > It will kick-in whenever `use-region-p' returns a non-nil value.
Non-nil or nil? Above you say "there's no region", which AFAIU means use-region-p returns nil. > I recognise that this isn't useful for people who don't rely on > transient mark mode, but in that case we'll need to commands anyway, > as I don't want to use the behaviour that Sean describes. Which is why I think we will need a separate command after all.