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Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default [Re: CUA-mode features and d
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default [Re: CUA-mode features and documenation] |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:48:13 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi, Dan!
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:58:26AM -0800, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> > BTW, before the pretest for 22.1 you were trying
>> > transient-mark-mode in order to enable it by default. What was
>> > the result of that experiment?
>
>> > I could not stand Transient Mark mode by itself. However, I now
>> > use it with `mark-even-if-inactive' = t, and I think that is fine.
>
>> OK, I have changed the default for mark-even-if-inactive to be t and
>> turned on transient-mark-mode by default.
>
> I feel I must protest about this.
Agreed. This is an abomination. I find that temporary transient mark
mode is all even an Emacs beginner will really need: after all, those
people will typically mark their texts with a mouse, anyway.
The mouse-invoked temporary transient mark mode is _really_ _really_
important. But the general transient mark mode is a nuisance.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Tentative diagnosis of TMM's problem., (continued)
- Re: Tentative diagnosis of TMM's problem. [Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default], Richard Stallman, 2008/02/21
- Re: Tentative diagnosis of TMM's problem. [Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default], Alan Mackenzie, 2008/02/23
- Re: Tentative diagnosis of TMM's problem. [Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default], Richard Stallman, 2008/02/23
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/20
- RE: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Drew Adams, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Miles Bader, 2008/02/20
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/21
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/02/23
- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default [Re: CUA-mode features and documenation],
David Kastrup <=
- Re: CUA-mode features and documenation, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/17
- Re: CUA-mode features and documenation, Leo, 2008/02/13
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/13
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Kim F. Storm, 2008/02/14
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/14
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/12
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Miles Bader, 2008/02/12
- Re: change cursor type when idle, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/12
Re: change cursor type when idle, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/02/12