Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default

[Mike Mattie <codermattie@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:12:35 +0000
Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:

> Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de> writes:
> 
> >> My point is that there are really two ways of having the active
> >> region highlighted by default: either by setting
> >> transient-mark-mode to t, or by letting C-SPC turn Transient Mark
> >> mode temporarily on.
> >
> > The difference is that in the case of setting transient-mark-mode
> > to t I can still put (transient-mark-mode -1) in my .emacs file to
> > get back the old behavior.  In case of the later "solution" there
> > would be no way to get back the original behavior -- or am I
> > mistaken?
> 
> Since C-@ would be bound to the old C-SPC behavior (only set mark) you
> would be able to set C-SPC back to this old behavior.
> 
> Or you would have a variable deciding whether C-SPC should trigger
> Transient Mark mode temporarily.  
> 

This works for me. swapping a couple of bindings is no problem. Couldn't this
swap be tied to transient mark mode ? so that enabling transient mode turns
on this new behavior ? or did I miss something in this monster thread ?

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