From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode. Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:06:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20080401151931.GA6533@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207066253 25584 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2008 16:10:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 16:10:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 01 18:11:22 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 1Jgj10-0001Wu-77 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:07:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgj0O-0001Yq-1Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:06:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgj0G-0001WF-Fo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:06:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgj0F-0001VH-1e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:06:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgj0E-0001V1-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:06:26 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jgj0E-0007Wl-70 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:06:26 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (vpn-132-204-232-167.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.167]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m31G6OOi004399 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 12:06:24 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 833B8B40F9; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 12:06:23 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20080401151931.GA6533@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Tue, 1 Apr 2008 15:19:31 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 0 Rules triggered X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:94125 Archived-At: > I think something like this design would be logically coherent, simple to > document, implement and use, would have the features that people want, > and be a vast improvement over the current Transient Mark Mode. I must be missing something. You seem to be describing the current behavior. Is your suggestion just another way to describe the current behavior, which would be more appropriate for the manual? Stefan