Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful

[Chad Brown]

Question for the people who dislike transient-mark-mode and it's
related behaviors:

Do you find yourself making an unwanted `highlighted region' using any
other method than C-xC-x?  The potential candidates that come to mind
are `C-space and movement', shift-selection, and mouse-sweep.

I used to dislike transient-mark-mode (back when it was called
zmacs-region and I was using Epoch), and disabled it along with most
of the `chrome', but at one point I intentionally tried working with
all of the bells and whistles and found it helpful except when I was
using C-xC-x often when editing code.  I spend more time editing text
these days, and much less hoping around with C-xC-x, so I just live
with the occasional distraction, but perhaps a way to invert the ARG
of exchange-point-and-mark would let more emacs hackers enjoy the
benefits of t-m-m without being annoyed by the spurious flashing/C-g.

*Chad