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bug#64185: proposal for new function: copy-line
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#64185: proposal for new function: copy-line |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Jun 2023 19:45:31 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/30.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> 'duplicate-dwim' duplicates the region if it is active. If not, it
>> works like 'duplicate-line'. An active rectangular region is
>> -duplicated on its right-hand side.
>> +duplicated on its right-hand side. The new user option
>> +'duplicate-line-final-position' specifies where to move point
>> +after duplicating the line.
>
> This makes it unclear to what extent the variable affects
> `duplicate-dwim`. (For some reason it only does so when the region is
> inactive, which doesn't seem right.)
The new command `duplicate-line` would be useless for many users
without that option. There is no such problem for `duplicate-dwim`
that is more complicated. It would be a major undertaking to design
a similar option for `duplicate-dwim` for consistency with `duplicate-line`
because of more decisions necessary to make: whether to move point
to the beginning or the end of the copied regions, whether to select
all the copied regions or only one of them, etc.
> And I agree that allowing any integer as value isn't necessary the
> best choice here. It's a false flexibility; nobody will ever set it
> to something other than 0, 1 or -1. Symbols would probably be better,
> for several reasons.
For users of the Customization UI the choices are explained clearly:
:type '(choice (const :tag "Leave point on old line" 0)
(const :tag "Move point to first new line" 1)
(const :tag "Move point to last new line" -1)
(integer))
For users who know Emacs Lisp and like to write plain values in ~/.emacs,
the values 0, 1, -1 are more intuitive and familiar due to functions
like `substring`, etc.
BTW, to my surprise the shortdoc of `substring` has no examples
of a negative argument. I don't know whether this omission
is intentional to make the string section shorter.
bug#64185: proposal for new function: copy-line, Mattias Engdegård, 2023/06/23
bug#64185: proposal for new function: copy-line,
Juri Linkov <=
- bug#64185: proposal for new function: copy-line, Mattias Engdegård, 2023/06/24
- bug#64185: proposal for new function: copy-line, Juri Linkov, 2023/06/25
- bug#64185: proposal for new function: copy-line, Mattias Engdegård, 2023/06/25
- bug#64185: proposal for new function: copy-line, Juri Linkov, 2023/06/26
- bug#64185: proposal for new function: copy-line, Drew Adams, 2023/06/26
- bug#64185: proposal for new function: copy-line, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/06/26
- bug#64185: proposal for new function: copy-line, Mattias Engdegård, 2023/06/27
- bug#64185: proposal for new function: copy-line, Juri Linkov, 2023/06/27
- bug#64185: proposal for new function: copy-line, Mattias Engdegård, 2023/06/28
- bug#64185: proposal for new function: copy-line, Juri Linkov, 2023/06/28