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Chad Brown <yandros@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Question for the people who dislike transient-mark-mode and it's
> related behaviors:
>
> Do you find yourself making an unwanted `highlighted region' using any
> other method than C-xC-x?  The potential candidates that come to mind
> are `C-space and movement', shift-selection, and mouse-sweep.

No.

I never use `C-x C-x'.
I never use shift-selection.
I don't use the mouse to edit text either.