Re: transient-mark-mode and region highlighting

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

|> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:
|> 
|> >     It won't make the region active, yes.  But it would still put a mark
|> >     at point, like it does now.  So I could later "C-x C-x" back without
|> >     getting the highlight.
|> > 
|> > How does this differ from turning Transient Mark mode off?
|> 
|> Does marking text with the mouse turn on the active region when
|> Transient Mark mode is off?

If you mean whether marking with the mouse does highlighting independent
of Transient Mark mode, then the answer is yes.

Andreas.

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