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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
	Fabian Ezequiel Gallina <galli.87@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Keep region active after command
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:48:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinuDPPXwVcDNoH__atx3whfxj2C3keco+d4W5LN@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmxlrg1vk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> What would be the best way to keep the region active after a command?
>> What I'm willing to do is to keep the region active after
>> python-indent-shift-left and python-indent-shift-right are called.
>
> The region is deactivated if `deactivate-mark' is non-nil at the end of
> the command and this variable is set by buffer-modifying functions, so
> let-binding deactivate-mark around those functions (or around the whole
> command's body) is usually the way to do it.


Wouldn't it be good to have a general command like
dont-deactivate-mark-after-next-command?



  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-19 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-19 18:12 Keep region active after command Fabian Ezequiel Gallina
2011-02-19 21:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-19 21:48   ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2011-02-19 22:26     ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-19 22:36       ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-20  1:16         ` Miles Bader
2011-02-20  1:29           ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-20  3:59             ` Miles Bader

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