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From: "Samuel Wales" <samologist@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: question about org-region-active-p
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:20:28 -0700
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My limited understanding is this:

Without the concept of activeness, you can't tell whether to operate
on a single thing or a region.
Old workarounds were to have -region commands, which polluted the key
space; or C-u,  which polluted the prefix space.  t-m-m came along and
solved it.  Region versions of many emacs commands won't be available
if you don't turn it on.

Carbon emacs, and probably the default emacs, have t-m-m on by default.

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