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From: | Thomas Lord |
Subject: | Re: Shift selection using interactive spec |
Date: | Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:18:56 -0700 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060808) |
Johan Bockgård wrote:
David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:It's not even a reinvention, but a renaming of the wheel that you are apparently calling for, and I have yet to see the difference you are aiming for from the current behavior.I think the idea is that the mark should evaporate when the highlighting goes away. (It's like, you know, "transient".) Yes, that's right. Except that "tentative" is a better word than "'transient". If it's tentative, then maybe it's not going to last -- it can completely go away. That's "tentative". "Transient" means "passing through". A transient mark can come and go -- transience means only that it wanders between "active" and "deactivated". "Transient mark" is a good name for a transient mark -- it reflects its nature. Sometimes it's around. Sometimes it's not. But it's always somewhere until explicitly removed. "Tentative mark" is a good name for the functionality people seem to be groping towards. It reflects the nature of the semantics found in other applications and that, serendipitously, fits in with mark stacks in a natural way. I think that once upon a time someone tried to come up with tentative marks and missed, coming up with transient mark mode as an approximation. -t |
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