Re: rampant region highlighting

[Chong Yidong]

Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
>> I'm surprised: if you don't like transient-mark-mode, why didn't you write:
> [...]
>>   (if transient-mark-mode (setq transient-mark-mode nil)))
>
> Perhaps one day in a fit of madness I will actually want to enable t-m-m...
>
> I should change it to:
>
> (or (eq transient-mark-mode t) (setq transient-mark-mode nil))
>
>> Or even do away with the `if'?  That would not suffer from the problem
>> you're seeing.
>
> Shouldn't we be criticising the fact that I have to jump through such
> hoops at all, not the fact that I made them square? It's clearly a
> very polarizing feature, so a standard way to totally disable it would
> seem a good idea.

You mean something like this?

(global-unset-key [down-mouse-1])
(global-unset-key [drag-mouse-1])