Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,
>     address@hidden,
>     address@hidden,
>     address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 18:55:29 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> 
>  > > > email.  Sorry for the poor wording - it's late and I'm tired.
>  > > 
>  > > I would find this fairly confusing
>  > 
>  > So would I.  If you read this text carefully, it actually says
>  > something like "the region is active when Emacs marks it as active."
>  > That's hardly a definition of what "active" is.
> 
> Read a little more carefully.  It also explains how the behavior of
> Emacs changes when the mark is active.  That *is* a definition of 
> "active".

Right, but that "definition-through-behavior" was exactly what Alan
opposed to in the first place!