From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:27:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87myq4saw1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <878x1ov227.fsf@jurta.org> <878x1os6mt.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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203632951 31925 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2008 22:29:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:29:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, dann@ics.uci.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, storm@cua.dk, acm@muc.de, miles@gnu.org To: Sascha Wilde Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 21 23:29:35 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 1JSJuq-0001Sy-G7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:29:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSJuL-0003g8-6R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:28:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSJtd-0003IN-Ng for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:28:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JSJta-0003GW-KY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:28:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSJta-0003GS-AW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:28:02 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSJta-0006Jj-8o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:28:02 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JSJtX-0001DJ-Gu; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:27:59 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Sascha Wilde on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:35:45 +0100) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:89869 Archived-At: One important reason against it is, that it makes uses of the mark ring other than marking text very unpleasant. The manual starts section 12.6 with the example of using the mark to mark interesting spots in an buffer so that one can easily jump between them (in many cases this is faster than saving positions in registers and therefor very convenient). In such cases the highlighting of text between point and the last mark is distracting and useless. You seem to be talking about the case when the mark is active. But that's an unusual case, and it's easy to turn off, so why so concerned about it?