Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > For example, changing the way something as fundamental as regions work 
> > > in a very mature editor is just a bad idea.  A really really bad idea. 
> > > By all means, define some other type of region and let that have other 
> > > semantics, or, let users opt in to incompatible regions by having them 
> > > set a variable in their .emacs.
> >
> > Like Eli, I really wonder what this means.  I've been using Emacs for 
> > about 25 years, and I've not seen any change in the way regions work.
>
> Perhaps he is talking about transient-mark-mode?

I don't think so.  It was introduced in Emacs 19 (almost thirty years 
ago!), and it only requires (transient-mark-mode -1) in .emacs to be 
disabled.