bug#13521: `sort-lines' on the empty region

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:15:31 -0700
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, xfq.free@gmail.com, rgm@gnu.org, 
>       13521@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > How frequently did you see a buffer in Emacs with no region in it?
> > IME, it takes about 2 commands since buffer creation to have a region
> > in it.  So I predict users to be tripped by this feature quite a lot:
> > they will think there's no region, invoke the command, and get some
> > arbitrary region sorted.  Requiring them to always provide the region
> > avoids this pitfall, since the user is forced to make sure the region
> > is where he or she wants it.  And marking the whole buffer is just 2
> > key-presses away.
> >
> > So I think this change will annoy more than help.
> 
> Sorry, the correct terminology I should have used is "active region".
> This is as tested by `use-region-p'.  Compare the test I introduce also
> to the one in `flush-lines', where I lifted it from.

So if the user has transient-mark-mode disabled (which is what I do),
the command will always sort the entire buffer?  Or did I
misunderstand something?