* bug#6909: transient-mark-mode @ 2010-08-25 12:58 Marco Bisetto 2010-08-25 18:10 ` Alan Mackenzie 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Marco Bisetto @ 2010-08-25 12:58 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 6909 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) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* bug#6909: transient-mark-mode 2010-08-25 12:58 bug#6909: transient-mark-mode Marco Bisetto @ 2010-08-25 18:10 ` Alan Mackenzie 2010-08-25 22:52 ` Bastien 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Alan Mackenzie @ 2010-08-25 18:10 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Marco Bisetto; +Cc: 6909 Hi, Marco On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:58:53PM +0000, Marco Bisetto wrote: > Hi all, > This is not a bug, it's a wrong feature: Agreed > - transient-mark-mode on by default is a bad idea Agreed emphatically. > - transient-mark-mode is a bad idea per se: you must press more keys and > waste energy for no reason Yes, indeed. > - Active Region Highlighting is nonsense if you use rectangles such as in > C-x r t Wouldn't know, since I've never used "Active Region Highlighting". > - Active Region Highlighting is a pain if you change your mind and no more > want to act on the region you just marked I'm sure you're right. > * 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 Be thankful that there _is_ a workaround. > Bye. There's a history here. About 2 or 3 years ago, there was long, acrimonious, and bitter (don't slag me off for tautology :-) debate on the Emacs developers' mailing list about making transient-mark-mode enabled by default. Every point you've raised (and quite a lot you haven't) was fiercely fought over. In the end, the maintainers of Emacs decided to leave the misfeature in. Apparently, there are quite a lot of people who actually like t-m-m; I can't imagine why. I predict that, rather sadly, your bug report will be shoved to one side and not acted upon. Nobody, not even me, wants to reopen the matter for more argument. Thanks indeed, though, for taking the trouble to submit this bug report. > -- > Marco Bisetto -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* bug#6909: transient-mark-mode 2010-08-25 18:10 ` Alan Mackenzie @ 2010-08-25 22:52 ` Bastien 2011-07-09 18:56 ` Glenn Morris 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Bastien @ 2010-08-25 22:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Alan Mackenzie; +Cc: Marco Bisetto, 6909 Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes: > I predict that, rather sadly, your bug report will be shoved to one side > and not acted upon. Nobody, not even me, wants to reopen the matter for > more argument. I guess it's never too late to make a poll and see whether most emacs users are using the default or changing it. -- Bastien ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* bug#6909: transient-mark-mode 2010-08-25 22:52 ` Bastien @ 2011-07-09 18:56 ` Glenn Morris 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Glenn Morris @ 2011-07-09 18:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 6909-done I don't see a point to keeping this particular report open. The issue has been done to death on other emacs mailing lists. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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