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: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:49:34 -0500 Message-ID: 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203479405 32619 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2008 03:50:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:50:05 +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: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 20 04:50:28 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 1JRfyP-0002Ax-0A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:50:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRfxu-0000HK-61 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:49:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRfxq-0000HE-9a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:49:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JRfxn-0000H2-SX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:49:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRfxn-0000Gz-LL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:49:43 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRfxg-00007F-GC; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:49:36 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAPoxu0fO+J2cdGdsb2JhbACQUQEwnxyBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,379,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="14737851" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 19 Feb 2008 22:49:35 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.157.156]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id AFR45735; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:49:35 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 039CA801A; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:49:35 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <47BB6B13.9030804@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:49:39 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:89643 Archived-At: > Don't we all think that new users probably want the highlight the way > cua-mode does it? Actually, in this respect, cua-mode isn't very different, as far as I can tell: you also get into those situations where the region is highlighted when you don't want it and you have to hit C-g to get rid of it. Stefan