From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode. Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:49:00 +0000 Message-ID: <20080401174900.GA2260@muc.de> References: <20080401151931.GA6533@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207071245 13124 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2008 17:34:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:34:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 01 19:34:27 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 1JgkN7-0002jv-Lv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:34:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JgkMV-0006Ci-64 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:33:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JgkMP-0006BZ-4K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:33:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JgkMO-0006A2-Ci for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:33:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JgkMO-00069s-6L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:33:24 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1] helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JgkMN-0007mT-Lh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:33:24 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 99479 invoked by uid 3782); 1 Apr 2008 17:33:14 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p57AF4728.dip.t-dialin.net [87.175.71.40]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:33:12 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 2760 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Apr 2008 17:49:00 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 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:94131 Archived-At: 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.