From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:19:50 +0100 Message-ID: <47BB7226.1080100@gmail.com> References: <87myq4saw1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <47B39231.8010108@gmail.com> <200802151711.m1FHB3Y3008798@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200802171658.m1HGwQ4h011067@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080219085231.GA1032@muc.de> <200802190938.m1J9ccVg016565@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <20080219190127.GA1106@muc.de> <877ih0o9dx.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <7dbe73ed0802191545p3ff130came6223617e43c8466@mail.gmail.com> <47BB6B13.9030804@gmail.com> <85d4qslc43.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203466822 2033 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2008 00:20:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:20:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, Dan Nicolaescu , storm@cua.dk, Alan Mackenzie , Miles Bader , Mathias Dahl To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 20 01:20:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JRchX-00054A-NR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:20:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRch2-0007Z0-Rm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:20:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRcgz-0007Yt-JS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:20:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRcgx-0007XU-8W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:20:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRcgx-0007XL-0u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:20:07 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRcgm-00032k-Ax; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:19:56 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:59903 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JRcgk-0000Il-3y; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:19:54 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <85d4qslc43.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080219-0, 2008-02-19), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JRcgk-0000Il-3y. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1JRcgk-0000Il-3y f5647029b1624906505a83f99d513d83 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89626 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > >> Don't we all think that new users probably want the highlight the way >> cua-mode does it? > > No, we don't. That was easy. ;-) So some of us think that new users want highlighting in Emacs to differ from most other applications they use. Can someone summarize what differences we expect them to like? And maybe why?