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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::234 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229886 Archived-At: --0000000000002dadc705760ab48b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Mon, 17 Sep 2018, 10:21 Alan Mackenzie, wrote: > > 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. --0000000000002dadc705760ab48b Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Mon, = 17 Sep 2018, 10:21 Alan Mackenzie, <acm@muc.de> wrote:

<sigh> The region is simply a portion of your buffer.=C2=A0 What you&= #39;re
suggesting is epistemologically incoherent.=C2=A0 It's "if I don&#= 39;t like always
to have a portion of my buffer do I have an alternative?".=C2=A0 No, E= macs
can't support such nonsense.=C2=A0 Sorry.

It seems to me that the desires of= hw could be fulfilled by simply disabling the mark whenever the region bec= omes inactive.=C2=A0

It = does sound like something I would never want to use, but it does seem like = what is being suggested.=C2=A0
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