Subject: Re: [External] : Re: bug#51927: 27.2; Rename `highlight-nonselected-windows'

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:58:17 +0200

> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> CC: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:44:42 +0000
> 
> > > 1. This var has no effect if `transient-mark-mode' is disabled.
> > 
> > That is inaccurate: it has no effect if the region is inactive (you
> > can have an active region even with transient-mark-mode disabled).  I
> > added the caveat to the doc string.
> 
> I disagree.  The notion of "active" mark
> or region has no meaning outside of
> transient-mark-mode.

Not true:

  emacs -Q
  M-x transient-mark-mode RET
  M-<
  C-SPC C-SPC

Observe the message "Mark activated" in the echo area.

  C-u 20 C-f

Observe active region highlighted.

> Yet another won't-fix.

Will you ever learn to accept the judgment of the maintainers without
attacking it?