From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rampant region highlighting Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:30:59 -0400 Message-ID: <1gwsn91pr0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87od8mocte.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <5ty77qhbjr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207593129 23633 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2008 18:32:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:32:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 07 20:32:41 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jiw91-00042u-9l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:32:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiw8O-0005uh-6F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:32:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiw7T-0005Bh-AJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:31:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiw7Q-00059m-Jn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:31:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiw7Q-00059f-EN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:31:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jiw7Q-0004Ag-6j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:31:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jiw7P-0006pa-NW; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:30:59 -0400 X-Spook: Becker FIPS140 pipeline arrangements Putin ICE InfoSec X-Ran: {NO5u7VoNhzG-Du_^eb#(COP]zEDh)%Qvr43/xh[c!yZ-BLt,}\ZgJ}w]j>;*[Qy8{+a,D X-Hue: white X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:94604 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > I'm surprised: if you don't like transient-mark-mode, why didn't you write: [...] > (if transient-mark-mode (setq transient-mark-mode nil))) Perhaps one day in a fit of madness I will actually want to enable t-m-m... I should change it to: (or (eq transient-mark-mode t) (setq transient-mark-mode nil)) > Or even do away with the `if'? That would not suffer from the problem > you're seeing. Shouldn't we be criticising the fact that I have to jump through such hoops at all, not the fact that I made them square? It's clearly a very polarizing feature, so a standard way to totally disable it would seem a good idea.