Re: deactivation in "shift-select" mode

[Kim F. Storm]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> This implementation only works if transient-mark-mode is disabled,
> because of the way the transient-mark-mode "only mode" works; my guess
> is that this restriction would probably be pretty easy to remove by
> simply having a separate variable to enable "only mode" instead of
> overloading the meaning of the basic transient-mark-mode variable.

This really has nothing to do with transient-mark-mode as such
What is needed here is a similar functionality on deactivate-mark, i.e.:

Setting deactivate-mark to 'only means to deactivate mark after
the next command (during which deactivate-mark = 'identity).

> Anyway, here's the example code, which is very simple and seems to
> work quite nicely; check it!

It's a small step in the right direction...

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