Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default

[Bastien]

Sascha Wilde <address@hidden> writes:

>> My point is that there are really two ways of having the active region
>> highlighted by default: either by setting transient-mark-mode to t, or
>> by letting C-SPC turn Transient Mark mode temporarily on.
>
> The difference is that in the case of setting transient-mark-mode to t I
> can still put (transient-mark-mode -1) in my .emacs file to get back the
> old behavior.  In case of the later "solution" there would be no way to
> get back the original behavior -- or am I mistaken?

Since C-@ would be bound to the old C-SPC behavior (only set mark) you
would be able to set C-SPC back to this old behavior.

Or you would have a variable deciding whether C-SPC should trigger
Transient Mark mode temporarily.  

-- 
Bastien