Re: Shift selection using interactive spec

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Lord <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
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>         Tentative marks capture the familiar semantics much more
>         precisely than transient ones.
>
>     By making it impossible to recreate a mark where one had been last time?
>     What's the advantage in providing strictly less functionality?
>
> Tentative marks do *not* make it impossible to recreate a
> mark where one had been last time.

So what's your complaint about C-x C-x?

> They do imply that "recreatable" tentative marks are stored
> someplace else besides the mark stack.

C-x C-x does not push onto the mark stack.

> Tentative marks are by definition not precious so
> I don't know that you'd want to put much effort into saving
> them but you could always keep, maybe the most recent
> one or two if you have commands that would want to restore them.

What's the advantage to what is already there?  Can you present a
sequence of operations or keypresses where your scheme would provide an
advantage?  What advantage?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum