Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>     No it's not.  If that feature is desired (seems ok to me), it should
>     just be added to normal t-m-m.
>
> That makes sense to me.  Just as C-SPC C-SPC enables a temporarily
> specially active region when that's not the default (Transient Mark
> mode disabled), it could set the mark and not activate in the mode
> where activating is the default (Transient Mark mode enabled).
>
> I am not sure whether it is useful, but there is no reason to reject
> it if it is useful.

Now that I think about it, I really like this idea:  it's very easy to
understand that C-SPC C-SPC and C-SPC are "active and non-active"
mark-setting commands, and simply swap roles depending on whether
full-t-m-mode is enabled, and obviously C-SPC C-SPC is very convenient
to type.

I've never really used the "push a mark" command much, as I use
t-m-mode, but I think if C-SPC C-SPC pushed a non-active mark, I would
use it more often.

-Miles

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