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Roelli) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#32956: 26.1.50; t-m-m mark deactivation documentation Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:42:07 +0200 Message-ID: References: <<>> <<5399d374-2089-492a-b830-9eb2baac82a6@default>> <> <8e713508-f360-4fcd-9288-e094d450683a@default> Reply-To: charles@aurox.ch NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1538941833 16311 195.159.176.226 (7 Oct 2018 19:50:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2018 19:50:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 32956@debbugs.gnu.org To: charles@aurox.ch Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 07 21:50:29 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g9F4M-00047D-S4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:50:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43349 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9F6T-00040R-7c for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 15:52:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43571) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9F67-0003Z9-JZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 15:52:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9EtK-000644-M8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 15:39:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:35388) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9EtK-00063E-Aq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 15:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g9EtJ-0007zT-SL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 15:39:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. 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Roelli) > > But the Emacs manual does lack an index entry for "deactivating the > mark", which seems like an area for improvement. FWIW, this change for emacs-26 should fix it, as well as adding an entry for activating the mark. diff --git a/doc/emacs/mark.texi b/doc/emacs/mark.texi index 0ffa9f7..1050587 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/mark.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/mark.texi @@ -17,11 +17,13 @@ Mark changes. @cindex active region +@cindex activating the mark Setting the mark at a position in the text also @dfn{activates} it. When the mark is active, we say also that the region is active; Emacs indicates its extent by highlighting the text within it, using the @code{region} face (@pxref{Face Customization}). +@cindex deactivating the mark After certain non-motion commands, including any command that changes the text in the buffer, Emacs automatically @dfn{deactivates} the mark; this turns off the highlighting. You can also explicitly