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

>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Palmer <[email protected]> writes:

    Brian> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]> writes:

    >> And the default case, which is the killer, no?

    Brian> I don't see why. As long as things and people that care can
    Brian> easily switch cases the same way, or take advantage of
    Brian> their existing knowledge, I'd suspect the default is not
    Brian> tremendously important.

I guess not.  I was thinking that it would matter to what people need
to code where, and that it would tend to get the Emacsen out of sync,
but I guess it's a strict improvement over the current situation.
 
    Brian> some people ignore the function in their code and simply
    Brian> set transient-mark-mode the variable directly. Would that
    Brian> be supported?  ie., have

Oh, wonderful.  [They _set_ it, not _bind_ it?]

No, it's gonna have to be transient-mark-mode or nothing.  If I were
rms I certainly wouldn't s/mark/region/; it's not that bad a name that
it justifies a global substitution on a user variable, so the only
reason to do it would be make things equally painful for XEmacs users
and GNU Emacs users.


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