Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused.

[Chong Yidong]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

>> As for changing the "active mark" terminology, that's not particularly
>> profitable, because it's already deeply embedded in the C and Lisp code
>> for over a decade.
>
> Bugs should be fixed, regardless of how long they've been in the source.
> What's new here is that the current bug is no longer a mere option, it's
> become a factory default.

No, changing the variable `mark-active' is a non-starter.  There's too
much code outside the Emacs source tree that depends on its current
meaning.