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Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark M


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode.
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:40:41 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

Manoj Srivastava <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:04:51 -0400, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> said: 
>
>> Actually, they are not independent: the fact that the mark gets
>> "deactivated" every once in a while in TMM is crucial to making the
>> highlight bearable.  Otherwise, it would *always* be highlighted.
>
>         But then we go around and make the mark active again even when
>  it is not. I think what we want is that the highlight is either on or
>  not (having it on all the time will indeed make me want scratch my
>  eyes out).  I think we have conflated the highlight being visible and
>  mark being active: we want the highlight to go on and off based on
>  some actions.
>
>         Even though newbies want to see the region visible, they are
>  very confused about things like query replace not working like they
>  do when there is no region highlight.

You are confusing an active mark with an active region.  The latter
causes both highlighting and region-specific action.  The former just
means that the region is _usable_, not that it is _active_.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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