Re: Ctrl-x Ctrl-x (exchange-point-and-mark)

[Harry Putnam]

Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:

> Am I understanding correctly that what you're trying to accomplish is
> to not have the current region highlighted when you C-x C-x?

Your understanding it alright, just missing what was in the OP:

Harry wrote in OP:
> > I don't want to turn off the newish behavior of how regions are
> > selected, where it takes two strikes of spc bar to turn it off.  I
> > know there is a way to turn that off, but wondered if I might be
> > able to ditch that un-wanted behavior some other way.

> Another option that would avoid transient-mark-mode would be to use
> pop-global-mark with `C-u C-SPC` instead of `C-x C-x` which doesn't
> leave the mark active, if your only goal is to return to a previous
> location and forget about the current location.

That is a good one to know but I mostly do flip back and forth, but
thanks for the tip... I didn't know about C-u C-spc