Re: ispell-region with M-$ in transient-mark-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:48:09 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> When a region is active in Transient Mark mode, typing M-$
> unexpectedly checks only one word, and quits.  What is more natural
> to do in such case is to call `ispell-region' on a selected region.

I don't like such a reinterpretation of a word-related command: it's
counterintuitive.  It is okay to do that with commands that by default
work on the whole buffer, but not with commands that work on a word.

Do we even have other *-word commands that modify their behavior in
such a way?