Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes: >> 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.
Right, my bad. >> 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. OK, but we can add that independently of this patch. -- Philip Kaludercic on siskin