Re: [PATCH] bugfix: always reply to 1 article only with "F"

[Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> Wasn't the region active in the summary buffer then?  An easy
> way to check whether the region is active is to set the
> transient-mark-mode variable to t.

Woops. My mistake: I don't like transient-mark-mode, but I like being
able to cite only part of a message by selecting it with mouse and
pressing `F'.

OGnus did the right thing for me, but with No Gnus, the only way to do
this I could find was to redefine `gnus-region-active-p' to

(defun gnus-region-active-p ()
  (and (boundp 'mark-active)
       mark-active))

I didn't think this could have this unpleasant side effect ...

I'm now using the following workaround for those transient-mark-mode
"problems" (I mean, this gives me the behavior I like):

(defadvice mouse-drag-region
  (before moy-activate-transient activate)
  (transient-mark-mode 1))

(defadvice keyboard-quit
  (before moy-deactivate-transient activate)
  (transient-mark-mode -1))

So, transient-mark-mode is activated on mouse drag, and desactivated
on C-g.

-- 
Matthieu