[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steinar Børmer) writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > > | Transient mark mode is an abomination. It really needed to be > | replaced by the implementation of temporary transient mark mode > | (which also is activated by dragging the mouse) in Emacs 22. > | > | Have you tried CVS Emacs recently? There definitely is no reason > | to use transient-mark mode permanently any more. > > I don't quite see how you can say that. Temporary transient mark > mode has a point, yes, but I would rather have it enabled > permanently rather than needing a keybinding each time I need it. > (I never mark a region with the mouse).
With transient-mark-mode, the region tends to be marked when it annoys me, and unmarked when I would need it. > The problem for me is that without transient mark mode, I often run > into situations where I mark the "wrong" region, and then I have to > go back and do it all over again. Then I'd have to press `C-SPC > C-SPC' before marking once more. An "active region" is more than just the area between point and an active mark. For things like cut&paste, it amounts to pretty much the same, but it also affects search&replace operation and, say, in AUCTeX what happens if you use the keybindings for insertion environments and font selection commands (which go _around_ the active region). > Would you care to elaborate on this? You don't need to "go back and do it all over again". Just use C-u C-x C-x to activate or reactivate an existing region. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
