[slime-devel] Re: close-all-sexp for SLIME

lawrence mitchell wence at gmx.li
Mon Jan 19 22:07:49 UTC 2004


Luke Gorrie wrote:

[...]

> However, I couldn't figure out how to detect transient-mark-mode on
> XEmacs, so I switched it to use a prefix argument to restrict to the
> region. So `C-u C-c C-]' can be used to close subforms.

> I suspect that XEmacs has made transient-mark-mode mandatory. In my
> XEmacs, apropos for 'transient' matches nothing, yet it behaves as if
> it's in transient-mark-mode. Can anyone confirm?

XEmacs calls transient-mark-mode zmacs-region(s) iirc, or at
least, something very similar.  Which is why you didn't find it :).

> (I don't like transient-mark-mode because it seems like a barrier to
> developing the 6th-sense of always knowing where the mark is and has
> recently been, as is needed to make best use of the mark-ring. Making
> it mandatory is just the sort of awful thing XEmacs would do ;-))

No comment :)
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lawrence mitchell <wence at gmx.li>





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