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Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused.
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused. |
Date: |
Fri, 29 May 2009 10:19:55 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
> The region can be in one of two states: active or inactive. When
> the region is active, certain Emacs commands automatically operate
> on the text in the region, instead of on the whole buffer. For
> example, bla-bla-bla. By contrast, an inactive region can only be
> operated upon by commands specially designed for that job, such as
> @code{call-process-region}, @code{count-lines-region},
> @code{write-region}, etc.
> When the region is active, the function @code{region-active-p}
> returns a address@hidden value.
> The region becomes active when:
> <describe here the various ways of activating the region>
That looks pretty good to me. Of course it also needs to say when the
region becomes inactive.
Stefan
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., (continued)
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Stefan Monnier, 2009/05/28
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Kevin Rodgers, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Andreas Roehler, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/05/31
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Eli Zaretskii, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Eli Zaretskii, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused.,
Stefan Monnier <=
- RE: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Drew Adams, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/29
- RE: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Drew Adams, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Eli Zaretskii, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/05/31
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Andreas Roehler, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Eli Zaretskii, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Eli Zaretskii, 2009/05/29