Re: transient-mark-mode and region highlighting

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     How about an option that the region will only become active when
>     explicitly marked (with a mouse)?
> 
> You mean, C-SPC would be useless?

It won't make the region active, yes.  But it would still put a mark
at point, like it does now.  So I could later "C-x C-x" back without
getting the highlight.

Note that I meant this to be an option, and off by default.