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

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

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

>         If these three different effects are indeed separable, they can
>  be made independently activatable -- I personally  am only interested in
>  the visual highlight of the region.

Actually, they are not independent: the fact that the mark gets
"deactivated" every once in a while in TMM is crucial to making the
highlight bearable.  Otherwise, it would *always* be highlighted.


        Stefan