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Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:27:59 -0500 |
One important reason against it is, that it makes uses of the mark ring
other than marking text very unpleasant. The manual starts section 12.6
with the example of using the mark to mark interesting spots in an
buffer so that one can easily jump between them (in many cases this is
faster than saving positions in registers and therefor very
convenient). In such cases the highlighting of text between point and
the last mark is distracting and useless.
You seem to be talking about the case when the mark is active.
But that's an unusual case, and it's easy to turn off,
so why so concerned about it?
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- Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, David Kastrup, 2008/02/20
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- Fwd: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/02/22