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


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused.
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 12:48:39 +0300

> 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?




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