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Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:13:00 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> I am suggesting that having a usable mark should not imply an active
>>> region. But that is more or less the premise of transient-mark-mode.
>> I don't understand in what way TMM requires or enforces that "a usable
>> mark implies an active region".
> It may be mitigated with mark-even-if-inactive, but that is rather
> recent development.
Well, everyone is entitled to his/her own interpretation of "recent", but
1993-06-30 Richard Stallman (address@hidden)
* simple.el (mark-even-if-inactive): New variable.
that's around the same time transient-mark-mode sows up in the ChangeLog
files, so I presume it was introduced at the same time (I know
I discovered/enabled it "soon" after enabling TMM, but that "soon" may
span a year or two).
>>> (and temporary transient-mark mode is really a life saver:
>> Thank you ;-)
> The thanks are on my side. It was somewhat of a nuisance not to be able
> to use active-region commands, but the price of regular tmm-mode was
> simply too high.
What do you think of making C-M-SPC (and a few other such mark-*
commands) turn on temp-TMM?
Stefan
- Re: scroll-restore.el, (continued)
- Re: scroll-restore.el, martin rudalics, 2008/02/22
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Jason Earl, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, David Kastrup, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Jason Earl, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, David Kastrup, 2008/02/21
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/21
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, David Kastrup, 2008/02/21
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, David Kastrup, 2008/02/21
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/21
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/21
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/21
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, David Kastrup, 2008/02/21
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Miles Bader, 2008/02/21
- RE: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Drew Adams, 2008/02/21
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Miles Bader, 2008/02/21
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/02/21
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Miles Bader, 2008/02/21