On Mon, 17 Sep 2018, 10:21 Alan Mackenzie, <acm@muc.de> wrote:

>
> <sigh> The region is simply a portion of your buffer.  What you're
> suggesting is epistemologically incoherent.  It's "if I don't like always
> to have a portion of my buffer do I have an alternative?".  No, Emacs
> can't support such nonsense.  Sorry.


It seems to me that the desires of hw could be fulfilled by simply
disabling the mark whenever the region becomes inactive.

It does sound like something I would never want to use, but it does seem
like what is being suggested.