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


From: Alan Mackenzie
Subject: Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused.
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:35:33 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.9i

Hi, Eli!

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:38:26AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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?

No, it didn't _actually_ say that, it _implicitly_ said it; or, more
precisely, that's the message I would hear if I were an Emacs user trying
to make sense of that page of the manual.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).




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