Re: Crazy idea for M-(: surround region

[Barry Margolin]

In article <3F12CCE0.9090801@yahoo.com>,
Kevin Rodgers  <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Kai Großjohann wrote:
>
>> If transient-mark-mode is active, M-( should surround the region with
>> parens, ie do like C-w M-( C-y.
>
>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.
If you go to the trouble to specify the number of sexp's to parenthesize,
why would you want it to ignore that?

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

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