Re: python-mode: keep mark when shifting [patch]

[David Reitter]

On 10 Mar 2006, at 20:40, Henrik Enberg wrote:

> David Reitter <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > The patch below fixed a behavior of python-mode that I've found
> > somewhat annoying: it deactivates the mark whenever you do C-c <  
> > or C-
> > c > to shift a block to the left or right. Because one commonly needs
> > to do this several times in a row (checking visually in between),
> > it's very unhelpful if the mark gets deactivated.
>
> Since other indent commands that works on a region in Emacs deactivate
> the mark, wouldn't this be a bit surprising?

I agree, as long as we are talking about manual indent commands,  
which are often applied repeatedly.
(fill-paragraph, for example, can deactivate the mark of course.)

The ideal situation in my view would be a default indent command  
which is modified by the major mode if necessary. That way, I  
wouldn't have to learn different key bindings for indent commands for  
programming in Perl and Python.
This command can then ensure that the mark does not get deactivated.