Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused.

[Alan Mackenzie]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:48:39PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:35:33 +0000
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>

> > > > Manuals shouldn't be patronising.  When a manual implicitly says
> > > > "if you can't even figure out what I mean by \"active\", you're
> > > > stupid", that's patronising.

> > > Did the manual actually say that? where?

> > No, it didn't _actually_ say that, it _implicitly_ said it; or, more
> > precisely, that's the message I would hear if I were an Emacs user
> > trying to make sense of that page of the manual.

> What text, exactly, could send such a message?

All the text using the obscure undefined word "active".