From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
To: acm@muc.de
Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode.
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 13:10:42 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804011810.m31IAghI007964@jane.dms.auburn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080401174900.GA2260@muc.de> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:49:00 +0000)
Alan Mackenzie wrote:
But I'm suggesting that the (eq mark-even-if-inactive nil) case be
removed, since it's not useful.
I have not followed this discussion, so I am not sure I understand the
above correctly. I hope that it does _not_ mean that you are
suggesting eliminating mark-even-if-inactive completely.
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.
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.
So it is bad enough that mark-even-if-inactive was made t by default
(a decision I am not going to fight, because I do not have the time
to enter in some endless discussion), it should _certainly_ not be
_eliminated_.
Sincerely,
Luc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-01 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-01 15:19 Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-01 16:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-01 17:49 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-01 18:10 ` Luc Teirlinck [this message]
2008-04-01 18:18 ` Luc Teirlinck
2008-04-01 18:48 ` paul r
2008-04-01 19:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-02 2:01 ` Mike Mattie
2008-04-02 0:57 ` Manoj Srivastava
2008-04-02 14:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-02 18:32 ` Manoj Srivastava
2008-04-02 20:40 ` David Kastrup
2008-04-01 17:08 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-04-01 17:16 ` Vincent Belaïche
2008-04-01 21:29 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-04-02 6:26 ` Jan Djärv
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