GNU bug report logs - #9688
Misleading documentation in "Persistent Mark".

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 09:16:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Misleading documentation in "Persistent Mark".
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 09:10:23 +0000

Hi, Emacs.

The chapter "Persistent Mark" in the Emacs manual is misleading.

The chapter title suggests that the mark is otherwise transient.  This is
not the case by default, since `mark-even-if-inactive' is non-nil by
default.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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