Remember: If region is visible, use it as initial text.

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 4268917e0abe30945bde0e805d55f29657274b37..7ce308b563b06c9d6390ce09ed3c878b9e4f125d 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+2008-01-08  Michael Olson  <mwolson@gnu.org>
+
+       * textmodes/remember.el (remember-region): Fix typo in docstring.
+
+2008-01-08  Lennart Borgman  <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
+
+       * textmodes/remember.el (remember): If there is a visible region
+       [that is, the mark is active and transient mark mode is enabled]
+       then use this region for the initial contents of the *Remember*
+       buffer.  Use `region-beginning' and `region-end' instead of
+       `point' and `mark'.
+
 2008-01-07  Dan Nicolaescu  <dann@ics.uci.edu>
 
        * vc-hg.el (vc-hg-dir-state, vc-hg-dir-status): Pass the dir

diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/remember.el b/lisp/textmodes/remember.el
index 81be7ace146f653f251cecc42317296f375a588c..0790bee55ae5ad09c33bbfcf9e78062279e7a947 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/textmodes/remember.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/remember.el
@@ -273,10 +273,12 @@ called."
 INITIAL is the text to initially place in the *Remember* buffer,
 or nil to bring up a blank *Remember* buffer.
 
-With a prefix, use the region as INITIAL."
+With a prefix or a visible region, use the region as INITIAL."
   (interactive
-   (list (when current-prefix-arg
-           (buffer-substring (point) (mark)))))
+   (list (when (or current-prefix-arg
+                   (and mark-active
+                        transient-mark-mode))
+           (buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end)))))
   (funcall (if remember-in-new-frame
                #'frame-configuration-to-register
              #'window-configuration-to-register) remember-register)
@@ -422,7 +424,7 @@ Subject: %s\n\n"
 (defun remember-region (&optional beg end)
   "Remember the data from BEG to END.
 It is called from within the *Remember* buffer to save the text
-that was entered,
+that was entered.
 
 If BEG and END are nil, the entire buffer will be remembered.