Re: draft for DEL key poll

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 30.09.2011 23:22, schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
> > Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:03:36 -0400
> > From: Richard Stallman<address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> >
> > I don't generally care whether the region is active -- I set
> > mark-even-if-inactive to t.
>
> t is the default value of that variable nowadays.

Hi,

sounds like a redundancy for me:

*Non-nil means you can use the mark even when inactive.
This option makes a difference in Transient Mark mode.
When the option is non-nil, deactivation of the mark
turns off region highlighting, but commands that use the mark
behave as if the mark were still active.


IMHO there are two cases to decide:

- if exists a difference between point and mark, ie the region exists

- the region is highlighted or not

two functions resp. variables are enough for indicating this

region-active-p
transient-mark-mode.

all the other stuff introduces rather confusion than being helpful AFAIU

Cheers,

Andreas