>>>>> On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:21:54 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> said:
>> From: Philip Kaludercic <phil...@posteo.net>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas
<stefankan...@gmail.com>,
>> Andrea Corallo <acora...@gnu.org>, j...@linkov.net, r...@gnu.org,
>> 69...@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2024 21:12:01 +0000
>>
>> I had misremembered the last state of this patch. It is easier to just
>> have a tristate option. Here is the updated proposal:
Eli> Thanks.
>> +(defcustom kill-word-if-no-region nil
Eli> I would call this 'kill-region-dwim' instead.
>> + "Behaviour when `kill-region' is invoked without an active region.
>> +If set to nil (default), then an error occurs and nothing is killed. If
>> +set to `emacs-word', then kill a the last word as defined by the current
>> +major mode. If set to `unix-word', then kill the last word in the style
>> +of a shell like Bash, disregarding the major mode."
>> + :type '(choice (const :tag "Kill a word like `backward-kill-word'"
emacs-word)
>> + (const :tag "Kill a word like Bash would" unix-word)
>> + (const :tag "Do not kill anything" nil))
>> + :group 'killing)
Eli> :version tag is missing.
Is it worth allowing a user-specified function?
Robert
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