From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Marking with the mouse Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:16:05 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030910001427.GA12330@fencepost> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063286822 19768 80.91.224.253 (11 Sep 2003 13:27:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:27:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 11 15:27:00 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19xRTQ-0000ZD-00 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:27:00 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19xRUG-0000n4-00 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:27:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19xRSJ-0004Ty-Uc for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:25:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19xRQU-0003sc-2J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:23:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19xROk-0003Qy-Ho for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:22:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19xROC-0003Hp-St for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:21:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19xRIr-0005rQ-BO; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:16:05 -0400 Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: <20030910001427.GA12330@fencepost> (message from Miles Bader on Tue, 9 Sep 2003 20:14:27 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16295 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16295 BTW, shouldn't the documentation for the `transient-mark-mode' variable mention this special behavior when set to `lambda' (why `lambda', anyway?)? `lambda' is a symbol that we know exists and has no particular other meaning. When we want to add a third state value to some boolean variable, we often use `lambda'.