From: Sean Whitton Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 03:59:46 +0000 (+0800) Subject: ; exchange-point-and-mark-highlight-region: Add more detail here too X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e985504fd6a4ce4bcead3a00c50d7ce0bc2504b;p=emacs.git ; exchange-point-and-mark-highlight-region: Add more detail here too (cherry picked from commit a5f2d6279e0793aa0f8ba1939273866b6464b7e7) --- diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el index f6b8e4427bc..c7a8d24a70c 100644 --- a/lisp/simple.el +++ b/lisp/simple.el @@ -7283,7 +7283,10 @@ Does not set point. Does nothing if mark ring is empty." "Activate region when exchanging point and mark. When set to nil, this modifies `exchange-point-and-mark' so that it -doesn't activate the mark if it is not already active. +doesn't activate the mark if it is not already active, except when there +is a prefix argument. Setting this variable to nil effectively swaps +the meanings of the presence and absence of a prefix argument to +`exchange-point-and-mark'. This variable has no effect when Transient Mark mode is off." :type 'boolean