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: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused. Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 10:19:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20090528122927.GA2175@muc.de> <87fxepf9s8.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <20090528201529.GA4605@muc.de> <87bppdx8c0.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <20090528230359.GA1474@muc.de> <83zlcwqp89.fsf@gnu.org> <20090529092709.GB2793@muc.de> <831vq85ict.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243607181 2999 80.91.229.12 (29 May 2009 14:26:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 14:26:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 29 16:26:18 2009 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 1MA32I-0000y7-6o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 16:26:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37769 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MA32H-0001Bi-Eq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 10:26:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MA2wJ-0003rR-W1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 10:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MA2wB-0003me-LZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 10:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40125 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MA2wB-0003mJ-Ds for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 10:19:59 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:57071 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MA2w8-0002HT-H0; Fri, 29 May 2009 10:19:56 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvAFAHeLH0pFpZIv/2dsb2JhbACBT89RhAwF X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,271,1241409600"; d="scan'208";a="39291199" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca (HELO smtp.teksavvy.com) ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 29 May 2009 10:19:55 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([69.165.146.47]) by smtp.teksavvy.com (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id KTZ59311; Fri, 29 May 2009 10:22:11 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 280D1B4261; Fri, 29 May 2009 10:19:55 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <831vq85ict.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 29 May 2009 13:11:30 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:111200 Archived-At: > The region can be in one of two states: active or inactive. When > the region is active, certain Emacs commands automatically operate > on the text in the region, instead of on the whole buffer. For > example, bla-bla-bla. By contrast, an inactive region can only be > operated upon by commands specially designed for that job, such as > @code{call-process-region}, @code{count-lines-region}, > @code{write-region}, etc. > When the region is active, the function @code{region-active-p} > returns a non-@code{nil} value. > The region becomes active when: > That looks pretty good to me. Of course it also needs to say when the region becomes inactive. Stefan