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bug#32956: 26.1.50; t-m-m mark deactivation documentation
From: |
Charles A. Roelli |
Subject: |
bug#32956: 26.1.50; t-m-m mark deactivation documentation |
Date: |
Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:42:07 +0200 |
> Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 16:39:07 +0200
> From: charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)
>
> But the Emacs manual does lack an index entry for "deactivating the
> mark", which seems like an area for improvement.
FWIW, this change for emacs-26 should fix it, as well as adding an
entry for activating the mark.
diff --git a/doc/emacs/mark.texi b/doc/emacs/mark.texi
index 0ffa9f7..1050587 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/mark.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/mark.texi
@@ -17,11 +17,13 @@ Mark
changes.
@cindex active region
+@cindex activating the mark
Setting the mark at a position in the text also @dfn{activates} it.
When the mark is active, we say also that the region is active; Emacs
indicates its extent by highlighting the text within it, using the
@code{region} face (@pxref{Face Customization}).
+@cindex deactivating the mark
After certain non-motion commands, including any command that
changes the text in the buffer, Emacs automatically @dfn{deactivates}
the mark; this turns off the highlighting. You can also explicitly
bug#32956: 26.1.50; t-m-m mark deactivation documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/10/06