RE: Tentative diagnosis of TMM's problem. [Re: Enabling TransientMarkMode by default]

[Drew Adams]

> > 1. As soon as you have set mark at least once, there is a 
> >    region. The region continues to exist for the rest of
> >    your Emacs session. It can be empty (point = mark), but
> >    it is never destroyed.
> 
> You can remove the region by explicitly moving the mark marker to nil.

Of course.

In normal use, it remains - it remains if you don't use Lisp set it to nil.
That's the point to get across - it is always there, even when invisible
(inactive, in t-m mode).