Re: region-active-p

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I thought the whole point was to add region-emptyness checking in there
>> as well (and potentially more, to account for things like a region that
>> has just been selected with the mouse).

> Oh, right; I forgot.

> A short name probably won't capture all 3 things this is a conjunction of:
> (1) tmm mode, (2) mark-active, (3) point diff from mark. The last can
> probably be dropped from the name, so perhaps `transient-region-p'?

> Whatever the name is, the doc string should make 1,2,3 clear.

> Also, I don't follow your remark in parens - could you elaborate?

Hmm.... [grepping frantically] ... oh I have it, it's in skeleton.el:

                          (or (eq last-command 'mouse-drag-region)
                              (and transient-mark-mode mark-active))

-- Stefan