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Re: transient-mark-mode: change default


From: Miles Bader
Subject: Re: transient-mark-mode: change default
Date: 29 Nov 2001 09:46:02 +0900

Bill Wohler <address@hidden> writes:
>   Please do not turn transient-mark-mode on by default. It would make
>   daily editing far too distracting. Like animated GIFs in web pages.

Note that the question is `should it be the _default_?'.

What this really means `Is this what novice users (those who haven't
learned to customize emacs yet) want, and will it not annoy _too_ many
experienced users?'.  It's OK [imho] to annoy _some_ experienced users by
changing a default, because they're perfectly capable of turning it off --
indeed, in some sense, experienced emacs users are exactly the _wrong_
people to ask, so a normal poll might actually do more harm than good.

-Miles
-- 
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra.  Suddenly it flips over,
pinning you underneath.  At night the ice weasels come.  --Nietzsche



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