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Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark M
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode. |
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Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:40:41 +0200 |
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Manoj Srivastava <address@hidden> writes:
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:04:51 -0400, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> said:
>
>> Actually, they are not independent: the fact that the mark gets
>> "deactivated" every once in a while in TMM is crucial to making the
>> highlight bearable. Otherwise, it would *always* be highlighted.
>
> But then we go around and make the mark active again even when
> it is not. I think what we want is that the highlight is either on or
> not (having it on all the time will indeed make me want scratch my
> eyes out). I think we have conflated the highlight being visible and
> mark being active: we want the highlight to go on and off based on
> some actions.
>
> Even though newbies want to see the region visible, they are
> very confused about things like query replace not working like they
> do when there is no region highlight.
You are confusing an active mark with an active region. The latter
causes both highlighting and region-specific action. The former just
means that the region is _usable_, not that it is _active_.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode., (continued)
- Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode., Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/01
- Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode., Alan Mackenzie, 2008/04/01
- Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode., Luc Teirlinck, 2008/04/01
- Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode., Luc Teirlinck, 2008/04/01
- Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode., paul r, 2008/04/01
- Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode., Alan Mackenzie, 2008/04/01
- Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode., Mike Mattie, 2008/04/01
- Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode., Manoj Srivastava, 2008/04/01
Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode., Andreas Röhler, 2008/04/01
Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode., Vincent Belaïche, 2008/04/01