From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode. Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:04:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20080401151931.GA6533@muc.de> <87abkd2hw0.fsf@anzu.internal.golden-gryphon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207145167 16568 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2008 14:06:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:06:07 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 02 16:06:36 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 1Jh3ar-0002DG-F8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:05:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jh3aF-0001NQ-CB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:04:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jh3aB-0001NL-0i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:04:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jh3a8-0001N9-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:04:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jh3a8-0001N6-Em for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:04:52 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182] helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jh3a7-0004B8-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:04:51 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AugEAC8v80dMCrUE/2dsb2JhbACBWqsF X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,593,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="17440857" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca (HELO smtp.teksavvy.com) ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 02 Apr 2008 10:04:51 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([76.10.181.4]) by smtp.teksavvy.com (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id ISG46051; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:04:51 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1094D7FE2; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 10:04:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87abkd2hw0.fsf@anzu.internal.golden-gryphon.com> (Manoj Srivastava's message of "Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:57:19 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:94192 Archived-At: >>> 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