Re: [External] : Re: master 927b885 1/3: Disable filtering of commands in M-x completion

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:24:38 +0000
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
>  "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> > It raises an error because the value of
> > mark-even-if-inactive was changed to nil,
> > so the region exists only when explicitly activated.
> 
> Really?  That's a horrible change in default behavior
> (IMHO).  Why was that done?
> 
> And that simple `foo' definition is enough to point
> to regressive behavior.  That command should just
> work - across all Emacs versions.  `M-x foo' should
> not raise an error suddenly in Emacs 28.  (IMHO.)

I don't understand what you are saying.  Commands with "r" interactive
spec always signaled an error if mark wasn't set, it's a very old and
documented behavior.  What do you mean by "just work" here?