Re: `yank-and-mark` command?

[Nicolas Richard]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Yet if I remove `exchange-point-and-mark', the command does not
>> work any longer.
>
> Oh, I thought you called it with the region activated.  If not, then
> indeed you still need to explicitly activate the region (which is
> better done with `activate-region' than with `exchange-point-and-mark'
> when called from Lisp).

By the way, is there a reason `activate-mark' isn't interactive ?
Sometimes I want to see where the mark is, and hitting C-x C-x C-x C-x
is a bit too much...

-- 
Nico