Re: transient-mark-mode and region highlighting

[Pavel Janík]

   From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
   Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:19:01 -0700 (MST)

Hi Richard,

   >     Currently, transient-mark-mode serves two different purposes: To
   >     highlight a selected region and to introduce "region sensitivity" to
   >     some commands (e.g. replace-string or comment-dwim).  AFAIK there is no
   >     way to separate the two transient-mark-mode's functionalities.
   > 
   > These two features naturally go together.  The highlighted region
   > tells you that commands such as replace-string will operate on the
   > region.  So I don't expect many users to want to enable the second and
   > not the first.
   > 
   > Do you see a reason to think many users want this?

last time I tried turning transient-mark-mode on, I gave up almost
instantly with the same reason as ever before: it did highlighting
a lot... I do not use it myself, because instead of this "region
sensitivity" of transient-mark-mode, I (*now*) prefer to narrow to region,
do what I want, and widen again. But I understand that it may be a lot
faster for me to turn the highlighting off and use transient-mark-mode for
this specific reason.
-- 
Pavel Janík

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