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Re: Crazy idea for M-(: surround region


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Crazy idea for M-(: surround region
Date: 14 Jul 2003 12:06:38 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

>> How should a prefix arg be interpreted in that case?  Is it ignored, or
>> does it force the current behavior (i.e does transient-mark-mode or
>> current-prefix arg have precedence)?
> It seems reasonable for this change to affect only the default behavior.

That's indeed what `skeleton-pair-insert-maybe' does, except it uses the
numeric argument differently (it passes it to self-insert-command).

> For those of us who don't use transient-mark-mode, how about C-u M-( or M--
> M-( surrounding the region?

That's a good idea that should maybe be added to
`skeleton-pair-insert-maybe', but note that C-SPC C-SPC M-( would work as
well in Emacs-CVS.


        Stefan


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