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> Recent messages: Loading dired... Loading regexp-opt...done Loading dired...done Loading info... Loading easymenu...done Loading info...done Composing main Info directory...done Found `transient-mark-mode' in Command Index. (3 total; use `,' for next) byte-code: Beginning of buffer Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
