Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused.

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 21:55:51 -0400
> Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > I think the answer has got to be along the following lines:  "The region
> > is called @dfn{active} when Emacs marks it internally as the portion of
> > buffer which any of a certain set of commands is to work on, when
> > otherwise the command would use the whole buffer, or a single word, or
> > some other portion of buffer.  When the region is active, the mark is
> > also said to be @dfn{active}." - essentially the (iii) from my previous
> > email.  Sorry for the poor wording - it's late and I'm tired.
> 
> I would find this fairly confusing

So would I.  If you read this text carefully, it actually says
something like "the region is active when Emacs marks it as active."
That's hardly a definition of what "active" is.