Re: transient-mark-mode: change address@hidden, address@hidden

[Richard Stallman]

    I think the issue is not just comment-region.
    How about providing a "region prefix" command so you can do

            C-SPC ...move about... \[region-prefix] M-;

    where `region-prefix' basically activates the mark (if needed),
    turns on transient-mark-mode and turns it back off right after the next
    command ?

This idea seems like a good approach.  I think it would not be a
prefix command, really, but rather a command that would set a flag
that is cleared after the next command, much the way C-u sets up a
numeric argument that is cleared after the next command.