Re: Aliasing zmacs-regions, providing a transient-mark-mode

Brian Palmer <[email protected]> writes:

> The discussion of regions brings up a point. GNU emacs nowadays uses
> transient-mark-mode for what xemacs uses zmacs-regions. The latter
> name is pretty much meaningless for at least us novice users, and
> similarly the first sentence of the docstring (*Whether LISPM-style
> active regions should be used.), which is a bummer since that's the
> sentence that shows up in apropos searches.
>
> Would there be support for a patch that simply does the equivalent of 
>
> (defvar zmacs-regions nil
>         "*Whether regions should be deactivated by most (non-motion) commands. 
> ...")
> (defvaralias 'transient-mark-mode 'zmacs-regions), 
>
> and uncomments out the transient-mark-mode defun in simple.el ?

The problem is that we do *not* support transient-mark-mode, which is
in many ways subtly difference from zmacs-regions.  And, to me at
least, transient-mark-mode is about as informative as zmacs-regions.