Re: Tentative diagnosis of TMM's problem. [Re: Enabling TransientMark Mode by default]

[Juri Linkov]

> "Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
>> Question: Is it important that the region stay active when you move point?
>> If not, then perhaps (in t-m mode) we should always have point movement
>> deactivate the region.
>
> Yes, in fact it's a basic tenent of tmm usage...  People that are used
> to tmm would be _extremely_ inconvenienced if movement deactivated the
> mark.
>
> Remember:  tmm is not cua-selection-mode.

In cua-selection-mode point movement deactivates the region only when
the region was activated by shift-arrows.  But when the region is
activated by C-SPC, point movements extend the active region.

-- 
Juri Linkov
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