Re: rampant region highlighting

[Glenn Morris]

Chong Yidong wrote:

<elsewhere>
> If you want to avoid tmm entirely, you could, y'know, avoid using
> the mouse...

> You mean something like this?
>
> (global-unset-key [down-mouse-1])
> (global-unset-key [drag-mouse-1])

I avoided rising to the bait the first time, but no, I don't mean
something like that. Is that really your policy, or are you joking?
I'm either annoyed or not amused, accordingly.

(setq transient-mark-mode 'never)

would be an acceptable solution.