Re: mark without starting region

[lawrence mitchell]

Shaddin Doghmi wrote:


> i use marks for two different purposes at different times: starting a
> region, as well as pushing a position on the stack so i can come back
> to it later. When starting a region, i like having transient mark mode
> on so i can see the region highlighted. However, this becomes an
> annoyance when im using the mark for simply remembering a position. Of
> course one way to do it to map the transient-mark-mode toggle to a
> key, and just toggle that on and off.... however, what i would really
> want is two different functions: one sets a mark and starts a region,
> the other just sets a mark... is there any such thing? i tried writing
> two elisp functions to do it, but i know practically no elisp so its
> no wonder they didnt work(complains about number of arguments to
> set-mark-command):

In Emacs 21, You can type C-SPC C-SPC to temporarily enable
transient-mark-mode.  So you can normally have it off, and then,
when setting the mark for starting a region, you can type C-SPC
C-SPC, rather than just C-SPC.

-- 
lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li>