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Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:34:48 -0800 |
David Reitter <address@hidden> writes:
> On 20 Feb 2008, at 16:04, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
>
> > Of course. But an experienced user does not *need* for Emacs to agree
> > with other apps he uses: he can customize it. The trouble is
> > unexperienced users who find themselves with (to them) weird or
> > unexpected behavior, and no way to fix it. We can give them familiar
> > defaults, or we can send them to RTFM...
>
>
> Absolutely. Despite some 15-20 years experience with computers, I had
> no Emacs and no Lisp experience. So I gave up twice until I decided to
> bite the bullet and switch to the only editor with Prolog support. It
> took me many weeks to customize it to the behavior I was used to from
> all my other apps. And even four years later I find myself going nuts
> over some things, except that I know now why they're hard to
> implement.
>
> By the way, I found empirically that some 80 percent of all users
> (exact figure eludes me now) left the Aquamacs default of opening new
> buffers in separate frames turned on. They're happy with it and get on
> with their lives. Of course there's a few others, old-time Emacs
> users, who don't find the big fat menu option in "Options" to turn
> this off, and instead bitch about it on their blogs. But I tend to
> look at what the majority wants, even if it might not be the best
> solution when ignoring the user's environment (other apps!). That's
> why we've got these things switched on. Including variable-width fonts
> for all text modes.
>
> I've never understood what hinders people from providing an "Emacs"
> and an "Emacs Classic", which simply differ in their default
> configuration. (But I also don't really care any more.)
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, (continued)
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Sascha Wilde, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, David Kastrup, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, David Kastrup, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, David Reitter, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, David Reitter, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, David Kastrup, 2008/02/20
- Provide different sets of .emacs [Was: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default], William Xu, 2008/02/20
- Re: Provide different sets of .emacs, William Xu, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Mathias Dahl, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, David Kastrup, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Mathias Dahl, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, David Kastrup, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Mathias Dahl, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, David Kastrup, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/20