Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode.

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hi, Stefan,

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:06:23PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 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.

In that case, it stands a reasonable chance of being adopted, perhaps?
;-)

But I'm suggesting that the (eq mark-even-if-inactive nil) case be
removed, since it's not useful.

> Is your suggestion just another way to describe the current behavior,
> which would be more appropriate for the manual?

It is partly that, because I think the words currently used are too
confusing.

The other main thing is to identify and separate out the various bits of
T-M-M, since they are easier to describe, (and probably to use)
separately.

>         Stefan

-- 
Alan.