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Re: Shift selection using interactive spec
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Shift selection using interactive spec |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:24:22 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>>>> Nevertheless, regardless of the exact details, shift-selection will
>>>> have to end up setting transient-mark-mode to a non-nil value.
>>>
>>> Indeed. I just saw that Miles and Kim were talking about moving the
>>> handling of "only" to deactivate-mark, or something along those lines.
>>>
>>> I plead guilty to turning transient-mark-mode into a non-boolean
>>> variable, and would be happy to see it go back to being boolean.
>>
>> If we're willing to ignore backward compatibility,
> The t-m-m 'only stuff was added in Emacs 23.x, so it's ok to
> undo that particular change and replace it by something else.
Indeed.
> More radical changes that would break code which works with 22.x
> is IMO not an option.
Agreed.
> So IMO the proposal below is simply too radical a change re. backwards
> compatibility.
Agreed.
>> I think a good way
>> to clean this up as follows:
>> - make transient-mark-mode a boolean again
> It's wasn't a boolean in 22.x either (it may be 'lambda too).
I don't think it's a problem: I doubt (m)any external packages have
treated it any different than boolean.
The problem is that code like (and mark-active transient-mark-mode)
should still work, because that is used at many places.
Stefan
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, (continued)
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, Chong Yidong, 2008/03/16
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/17
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, Chong Yidong, 2008/03/17
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/03/17
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/17
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, Chong Yidong, 2008/03/17
- RE: Shift selection using interactive spec, Drew Adams, 2008/03/17
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, Kim F. Storm, 2008/03/18
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, Chong Yidong, 2008/03/18
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, Kim F. Storm, 2008/03/18
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec,
Stefan Monnier <=
- RE: Shift selection using interactive spec, Drew Adams, 2008/03/18
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, Chong Yidong, 2008/03/20
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/22
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, martin rudalics, 2008/03/17
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/03/17
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, Thomas Lord, 2008/03/17
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, martin rudalics, 2008/03/18
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, Thomas Lord, 2008/03/18
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/03/18
- Re: Shift selection using interactive spec, Thomas Lord, 2008/03/18