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


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused.
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:38:26 +0300

> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 23:03:59 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > The main thing that's important, I think, is that the description of
> > the "transient-mark-mode enabled" behavior and the "transient-mark-mode
> > disabled" behavior are each internally consistent; they aren't always
> > mutually consistent, but that's too bad.
> 
> Manuals shouldn't be patronising.  When a manual implicitly says "if you
> can't even figure out what I mean by \"active\", you're stupid", that's
> patronising.

Did the manual actually say that? where?




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