Re: Lisp primitives and their calling of the change hooks

[Stefan Monnier]

> It's debatable whether it's within the rules or not.  The rules, which
> we so carefully crafted a few days ago, say, in part; "The arguments to
> `before-change-functions' will enclose a region in which the individual
> changes are made, ...".  There will never be any changes made in the
> quasi-deleted region, so to leave it without a balanceing a-c-f call
> could be construed as against the rules.

If so we should clarify the rules to allow for it.  `upcase-region` will
call b-c-f before knowing whether any char will be upcased, and I think
we do want to allow that kind of behavior.


        Stefan