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transient-mark-mode |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:58:53 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Hi all,
This is not a bug, it's a wrong feature:
- transient-mark-mode on by default is a bad idea
- transient-mark-mode is a bad idea per se: you must press more keys and
waste energy for no reason
- Active Region Highlighting is nonsense if you use rectangles such as in
C-x r t
- Active Region Highlighting is a pain if you change your mind and no more
want to act on the region you just marked
* 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
Bye.
--
Marco Bisetto
A few releases ago theese three lines weren't necessary in .emacs.el:
(global-set-key [home] 'beginning-of-buffer)
(global-set-key [end] 'end-of-buffer)
(setq transient-mark-mode nil)
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Re: bug#6909: transient-mark-mode |
Date: |
Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:56:06 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
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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