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Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused.
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused. |
Date: |
Fri, 29 May 2009 09:35:33 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
Hi, Eli!
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:38:26AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 23:03:59 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > > The main thing that's important, I think, is that the description
> > > of the "transient-mark-mode enabled" behavior and the
> > > "transient-mark-mode disabled" behavior are each internally
> > > consistent; they aren't always mutually consistent, but that's too
> > > bad.
> > Manuals shouldn't be patronising. When a manual implicitly says "if
> > you can't even figure out what I mean by \"active\", you're stupid",
> > that's patronising.
> Did the manual actually say that? where?
No, it didn't _actually_ say that, it _implicitly_ said it; or, more
precisely, that's the message I would hear if I were an Emacs user trying
to make sense of that page of the manual.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., (continued)
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Stefan Monnier, 2009/05/29
- RE: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Drew Adams, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/29
- RE: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Drew Adams, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Eli Zaretskii, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/05/31
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Andreas Roehler, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Eli Zaretskii, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused.,
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Eli Zaretskii, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/29