[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#6909: closed (transient-mark-mode)

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> transient-mark-mode
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> Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:58:53 +0000
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> Hi all,
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> This is not a bug, it's a wrong feature:
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> - transient-mark-mode on by default is a bad idea
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> - transient-mark-mode is a bad idea per se: you must press more keys and
>   waste energy for no reason
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> - Active Region Highlighting is nonsense if you use rectangles such as in
>   C-x r t
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> - Active Region Highlighting is a pain if you change your mind and no more
>   want to act on the region you just marked
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> * transient-mark-mode off by default is a possible workaround to this bad
>   situation where everybody must set it to nil in the configuration file
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> Bye.
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> Marco Bisetto
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> A few releases ago theese three lines weren't necessary in .emacs.el:
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> (global-set-key [home] 'beginning-of-buffer)
> (global-set-key [end] 'end-of-buffer)
> (setq transient-mark-mode nil)
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> Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:56:06 -0400
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> I don't see a point to keeping this particular report open.
> The issue has been done to death on other emacs mailing lists.
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