From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rampant region highlighting Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:21:07 -0400 Message-ID: <878wzpcvz0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87od8mocte.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <5ty77qhbjr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <1gwsn91pr0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207596343 3396 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2008 19:25:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:25:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 07 21:26:12 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 1JiwyQ-000631-8D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:25:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiwxm-00044N-Vd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiwxh-000427-Ey for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:25:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiwxf-00040O-2D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:25:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiwxe-00040I-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:24:58 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jiwxa-0008MC-NA; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:24:54 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 986CF4E49F; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:21:07 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1gwsn91pr0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:30:59 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:94615 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I'm surprised: if you don't like transient-mark-mode, why didn't you write: > [...] >> (if transient-mark-mode (setq transient-mark-mode nil))) > > Perhaps one day in a fit of madness I will actually want to enable t-m-m... > > I should change it to: > > (or (eq transient-mark-mode t) (setq transient-mark-mode nil)) > >> Or even do away with the `if'? That would not suffer from the problem >> you're seeing. > > Shouldn't we be criticising the fact that I have to jump through such > hoops at all, not the fact that I made them square? It's clearly a > very polarizing feature, so a standard way to totally disable it would > seem a good idea. You mean something like this? (global-unset-key [down-mouse-1]) (global-unset-key [drag-mouse-1])