From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode.
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:49:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080401174900.GA2260@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1w5ph87a.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Hi, Stefan,
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:06:23PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I think something like this design would be logically coherent, simple to
> > document, implement and use, would have the features that people want,
> > and be a vast improvement over the current Transient Mark Mode.
> I must be missing something. You seem to be describing the
> current behavior.
In that case, it stands a reasonable chance of being adopted, perhaps?
;-)
But I'm suggesting that the (eq mark-even-if-inactive nil) case be
removed, since it's not useful.
> Is your suggestion just another way to describe the current behavior,
> which would be more appropriate for the manual?
It is partly that, because I think the words currently used are too
confusing.
The other main thing is to identify and separate out the various bits of
T-M-M, since they are easier to describe, (and probably to use)
separately.
> Stefan
--
Alan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-01 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-01 15:19 Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-01 16:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-01 17:49 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2008-04-01 18:10 ` Luc Teirlinck
2008-04-01 18:18 ` Luc Teirlinck
2008-04-01 18:48 ` paul r
2008-04-01 19:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-02 2:01 ` Mike Mattie
2008-04-02 0:57 ` Manoj Srivastava
2008-04-02 14:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-02 18:32 ` Manoj Srivastava
2008-04-02 20:40 ` David Kastrup
2008-04-01 17:08 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-04-01 17:16 ` Vincent Belaïche
2008-04-01 21:29 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-04-02 6:26 ` Jan Djärv
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