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Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark M
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paul r |
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Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode. |
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Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:48:49 +0200 |
2008/4/1, Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden>:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Setting mark-even-if-inactive to t by default was a decision made to
> make transient-mark-mode less annoying to people who do not use it,
> are not going to use it ever and have no idea whatsoever about why
> and how people use it. I hope that not to many other changes have
> been made to t-m-m for that same purpose in this seemingly endless
> discussion.
After more thoughts, I also think it is not a newbie-friendly choice
to turn on mark-even-if-inactive. It is maybe even more confusing than
no tmm at all.
So if tmm is on by default in a move to make defaults easier for
newbies, mark-even-if-inactive should be let off.
>
> I have used t-m-m ever since I used Emacs and if I use commands like
> C-w and friends without having a region highlighted, so without being
> able to verify what is going to be deleted, there is 100% certainty
> that I typed C-w inadvertently, so the nice thing to do is to give me
> an error message rather than to make me pay for my mistyping.
Yes, I agree.
Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode., Andreas Röhler, 2008/04/01
Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode., Vincent Belaïche, 2008/04/01