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

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

    >> 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.

    Brian> In light of the relatively scanty google results, do you
    Brian> still say that

Yes.  I don't see good reason to do an alias/rename/defun if we're
not going to provide rather close GNU compatibility.  If we don't,
Kyle's suggestion of a do-nothing defvar for transient-mark-mode which
merely is a convenient placeholder for a docstring (cf
enable-multibyte-characters) seems appropriate.

So what it comes down to is whether Hrvoje's and my sense that there
are user-visible differences and they were annoying is valid.  If we
can show that it mostly is not, then "how do I get the same effect?" 
is definitely a FAQ, and I'd be willing to go with the original
proposal of defalias and defvaralias.

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