Re: [Nano-devel] Fwd: Re: how should piping through an external command work?

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 20-02-18 om 03:17 schreef Brand Huntsman:
>>> The terrible selection saving in writeout (who voted to do that?)  
>>
>> It was added in May 2001, commit cc197ef0, without giving any reason
> 
> Ugh, so the recent patches that keep a selection after performing an action 
> are to blame.

To blame for what?  The keeping of a selection (made by holding down Shift)
should happen only after commenting/uncommenting and indenting/unindenting.
If the selection persists in other cases, then this is a bug.

> Could we require a toggle in writeout to switch to saving a selection? 
> Because how often does anyone write a selection to a different file?

Start a new thread, with a good subject line, and ask.

Benno

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