From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tentative diagnosis of Transient Mark mode's problem. [Re: Enabling TransientMark Mode by default] Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:28:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200802151711.m1FHB3Y3008798@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200802171658.m1HGwQ4h011067@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080219085231.GA1032@muc.de> <200802190938.m1J9ccVg016565@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080219190127.GA1106@muc.de> <877ih0o9dx.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <20080220200142.GA1979@muc.de> <006e01c8740e$366ebbd0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <87prurb20i.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203650075 13479 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2008 03:14:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:14:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: wilde@sha-bang.de, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, dann@ics.uci.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, storm@cua.dk, acm@muc.de, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 22 04:14:59 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JSONG-0003D2-G9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:14:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSOMl-0002ZH-8t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:14:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSJu1-0003Wm-FJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:28:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSJty-0003Uj-Bi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:28:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSJtx-0003Ue-VE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:28:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSJtx-0006QQ-R4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:28:25 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JSJtx-0001Hs-63; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:28:25 -0500 In-reply-to: <87prurb20i.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:13:01 +0900) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:07:01 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89923 Archived-At: > Question: Is it important that the region stay active when you move point? > If not, then perhaps (in t-m mode) we should always have point movement > deactivate the region. Yes, in fact it's a basic tenent of [Transient Mark mode] usage... That change is a non-starter, so let's not discuss it any more.