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bug#51927: 27.2; Rename `highlight-nonselected-windows'
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#51927: 27.2; Rename `highlight-nonselected-windows' |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 08:49:55 +0200 |
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 21:03:45 +0000
>
> This variable seems poorly named, in more ways than one. Could we
> consider renaming it (by aliasing and perhaps deprecating the old name)?
This variable exists since Emacs 19. Renaming it after all that time
would make no sense at all.
> 1. This var has no effect if `transient-mark-mode' is disabled.
That is inaccurate: it has no effect if the region is inactive (you
can have an active region even with transient-mark-mode disabled). I
added the caveat to the doc string.
> 2. This is not really about highlighting windows. (Yes, the
> highlighting occurs in windows, of course. But it's the active region
> that's highlighted.)
The doc string says that.
> 3. The name says nothing about what's most important: "region". This is
> about showing (highlighting) the _active region_ in _all_ windows.
See above: that ship sailed long ago.
> 4. The doc should explain the alternative behavior, when the var is nil:
> the active region is highlighted only in the selected window.
Added.
And with that, I'm closing this bug.
bug#51927: 27.2; Rename `highlight-nonselected-windows', Juri Linkov, 2021/11/18