Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode.

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org>]

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:04:51 -0400, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> said: 

>>>> 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.  Is your suggestion just another way to describe the
>>> current behavior, which would be more appropriate for the manual?

>> If these three different effects are indeed separable, they can be
>> made independently activatable -- I personally am only interested in
>> the visual highlight of the region.

> Actually, they are not independent: the fact that the mark gets
> "deactivated" every once in a while in TMM is crucial to making the
> highlight bearable.  Otherwise, it would *always* be highlighted.

        But then we go around and make the mark active again even when
 it is not. I think what we want is that the highlight is either on or
 not (having it on all the time will indeed make me want scratch my eyes
 out).  I think we have conflated the highlight being visible and mark
 being active: we want the highlight to go on and off based on some
 actions. 

        Even though newbies want to see the region visible, they are
 very confused about things like query replace not working like they do
 when there is no region highlight.

        manoj
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