Re: Is transient-mark-mode for newbies?

[Tassilo Horn]

Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> writes:

> bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:
>
>> I use temporary transient mark mode for mark commands
>>
>>     (progn
>>       '#1=((after transient-mark activate)
>>            "Activate Transient Mark mode temporarily."
>>            (setq transient-mark-mode 'only))
>>       (defadvice mark-sexp              . #1#)
>>       (defadvice mark-word              . #1#)
>>       (defadvice mark-paragraph         . #1#)
>>       (defadvice mark-defun             . #1#)
>>       (defadvice mark-end-of-sentence   . #1#)
>>       (defadvice mark-page              . #1#)
>>       (defadvice mark-whole-buffer      . #1#)
>>
>>       (defadvice LaTeX-mark-environment . #1#)
>>       (defadvice LaTeX-mark-section     . #1#))
>
> WTF! What IS that stuff?!

,----[ (info "(elisp)Circular Objects") ]
| To represent shared or circular structures within a complex of Lisp
| objects, you can use the reader constructs `#N=' and `#N#'.
| 
|    Use `#N=' before an object to label it for later reference;
| subsequently, you can use `#N#' to refer the same object in another
| place.  Here, N is some integer.
`----

I didn't know that, too.  Really not bad. :)

Bye,
Tassilo
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