bug#1436: marked as done (23.0.60; region-active-p and kill-ring-save)

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Your message dated Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:11:50 -0500
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and subject line Re: 23.0.60; region-active-p and kill-ring-save
has caused the Emacs bug report #1436,
regarding 23.0.60; region-active-p and kill-ring-save
to be marked as done.

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> 23.0.60; region-active-p and kill-ring-save
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> Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:46:22 +0000
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)
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> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
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> The news says:
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> *** `region-active-p' returns non-nil when Transient Mark mode is
> enabled and there is an active region.  This is NOT the best function
> to use to test whether a command should operate on the region instead
> of the usual behavior -- for that, use `use-region-p'.
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> However, kill-ring-save uses region-active-p, is that not contradictory?
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> BTW, the doc string of use-region-p seems to make little sense.
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> Best,
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> Leo
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> Re: 23.0.60; region-active-p and kill-ring-save
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> Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:11:50 -0500
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> > *** `region-active-p' returns non-nil when Transient Mark mode is
> > enabled and there is an active region.  This is NOT the best function
> > to use to test whether a command should operate on the region instead
> > of the usual behavior -- for that, use `use-region-p'.
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> > However, kill-ring-save uses region-active-p, is that not contradictory?
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> No, because this use-region-p is intended for commands that do one thing
> when the region is inactive (usually acting on the text near point), and
> another thing when the region is active (usually acting on the text in
> the region).  Such commands use use-region-p to decide whether to act on
> the region.  That's not what kill-ring-save is using region-active-p for
> (kill-ring-save always acts on the region).
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> > BTW, the doc string of use-region-p seems to make little sense.
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> I rewrote the docstrings to make them a little clearer.
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