Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 134ba45: Allow two mouse functions to work with Rectangle Mark mode

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I don't understand the question: when would we st it back (to t or to
>> some saved value)?
> Sorry if I wasn't being clear enough. What I meant is the following:
> Let's we have three region modes: normal, rectangle and zones
> (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Zones).
> If I activate rectangle region mode first and then zones region mode,
> after I deactivate zones region mode,
> should the rectangle region mode be activated, or simply go back to
> normal? We don't have that problem right
> now because there are only two region 'modes' in Emacs at the moment
> (that I know of).

I think the generic infrastructure shouldn't care: it should be up to
the specific "deactivate" command you use to decide whether to set
mark-active to nil (i.e. really deactivate), to t, or to a value it had
earlier (via reactivate).


        Stefan