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

Brian Palmer <[email protected]> writes:

>> The problem is that we do *not* support transient-mark-mode, which
>> is in many ways subtly difference from zmacs-regions.
>
> Could you expand on those subtleties at all?

For one, there are behavioral differences I noticed while trying to
use FSF Emacs, but which I can't remember right now.

They support features that we don't, such as mark-even-if-inactive.
We support features that they don't, such as (interactive "_") and
`zmacs-region-stays'.

The two are simply not synonyms.  What's wrong with having different
variable names for different features?  After all, zmacs-regions are
on by default, and the kind of user who is annoyed by that feature is
likely to understand how to get rid of it.