Emacs manual, node Transient Mark Mode inaccurately describes region

[Drew Adams]

This node inaccurately describes the effect of t-m-m as adding and
removing the region, instead of activating and deactivating it. It
says things like this:

"...you explicitly must set up a region for
each command that uses one.  In Transient Mark mode, most of the time
there is no region; therefore, highlighting the region when it exists
is useful and not annoying.  When Transient Mark mode is enabled, Emacs
always highlights the region whenever there is a region."

This is gobbledygook (highlights x whenever x exists? as opposed to
highlighting x when x doesn't exist? there is no region?), it is inaccurate,
and it will confuse the user when s?he reads other
doc that says, correctly, that 1) the region always exists and
2) t-m-m only activates and deactivates the region.

This should be rewritten to say clearly that the region always exists
(it is the difference between point and mark), but in t-m-m there is a
notion of active region, and the active region is what behaves in the
manner described.


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2006-07-19 on BOS-CTHEWLAP2
X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Info

Minor modes in effect:
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-h
i <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-2>
i t r a n s i e n t <return> <wheel-up> <double-wheel-up>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu>
<report-emacs-bug>

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