From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display.texi: (,) isn't documented. Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:07:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181722259 32524 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2007 08:10:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 13 10:10:57 2007 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 1HyNwM-0000i6-Uh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:10:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyNwM-0005p9-Ak for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:10:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyNt4-0003oQ-36 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:07:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyNt3-0003nt-28 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:07:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyNt2-0003nl-Ox for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:07:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HyNt1-0005cZ-Pn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:07:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HyNt1-0006EI-HY; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:07:27 -0400 In-reply-to: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:72747 Archived-At: Recently, David make a remark against turning on transient-mark-mode by default, saying that "unintended active regions" lead to "constant interference...with both buffer display and operation". I'm not sure what he had in mind, but perhaps an unexpected empty region is part of it. Better to not have to reflect and determine that "something seems broken". Let's investigate this problem and look for the best solution. First task is figure out what scenarios these problems happen in.