From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proposal to change cursor appearance to indicate region activation Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:29:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422196215 9795 80.91.229.3 (25 Jan 2015 14:30:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 14:30:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kelly Dean Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 25 15:30:15 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YFOCa-00037d-2g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 15:30:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37940 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFOCZ-0001TV-Ct for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:30:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42616) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFOCM-0001TP-7W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:29:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFOCG-0001ny-Ik for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:29:58 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:44200) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFOCG-0001km-En for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:29:52 -0500 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t0PETnN2010820; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:29:50 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1BC5866135; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:29:46 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Kelly Dean's message of "Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:22:21 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5197=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5197> : inlines <1943> : streams <1379217> : uri <1843765> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181744 Archived-At: >> Having it nil by default makes it basically useless: there are already >> packages (such as cursor-chg.el) which provided that kind >> of functionality. > There are already other modes that are part of Emacs but nil by > default. Some that I use include electric-pair, show-paren, winner, > delete-selection, whitespace, savehist, and desktop-save. Of course. But to me the whole point of this exercise is to change the default. Stefan