Re: [PATCH 0/4] Structure editing when region is active

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

On 1/17/23, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:
>>   * one
>>   ****** two
>>
>> which seemed slightly relevant to the patch.
>
> Sorry, but could you further elaborate? What kind of integrity and what
> kind of structure editing do you have in mind here?

maybe my comment is too unrelated to the patch, but it just seemed
worth raising in the context.  to me it feels wrong to have a
non-linline-task child entry whose heading is star-indented more
levels than needed to denote a child entry.

in my own case, it suggests corruption, because i would not
deliberately create that.  i have encountered it.  similarly if
org-odd-levels-only is non-nil and there is an even star heading.  i
have encountered it.  confusing to track down.

i was merely asking if there was anything in e.g. main or syntax
documents etc. that refers to or enforces this.


as for active region or transient mark, to me, they are supposed to be
transient, unlike, for example, agenda restriction lock, and thus, for
example, having to c-g or so to get rid of a highlighted region feels
like a bug.

there might be exceptions where you pretty much always want to run a
command more than once with the region remaining active, perhaps such
as a rectange opening type of command, but to me the patch commands do
not apply there.