Re: Is transient-mark-mode for newbies?

[Mathias Dahl]

Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> writes:

> + Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com>:
>
>> I tried it for a long time but got pissed off by getting the region
>> highlighted when I did not want to, one time too many. For example
>> when using C-x C-x to switch point and mark.
>
> Then hit C-g to turn off the highlight.

Well, that's the thing, I don't want to have to do any of those
tricks, C-g, M-w or whatever, to get rid of it.  I guess I want it to
magically guess when I want it active, and that is quite hard. So I
keep transient-mark-mode off.