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On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:18:42PM -0400, Miles Bader wrote:
> > So maybe we should not make it buffer-local but instead make it hold
> > a list of buffers whose mark should be deactivated.
> > Currently we only use t or nil where t means "current-buffer".
> 
> Doesn't that require all the places where deactivate-mark is set to be
> changed (in a non-trivial way)?  Sounds very annoying for programmers...
> [and a maintainance headache]

Ah, I realized that people usually only `bind protect' deactivate-mark, not
actually set it to an explicit value...

-miles

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