Re: Emacs standards with regions

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:15:28 -0800 (PST)
> 
> I have little doubte, that when each of these features were considered
> in emacs, lots of diehard tech geekers think they are utterly stupid.

Well, you should doubt it, because tech geekers had no problems at all
with including CUA mode in Emacs.  The only reasons why it took so
long for CUA mode to become part of Emacs is that (1) there was a need
to find a way of doing that without losing important Emacs key
bindings like C-x and C-y, and (2) the satisfactory technical solution
was not ready in time for Emacs 22.1, and so was deferred to the next
major release.

> for example, consider the naming of things. For example, when a emacs
> user tried to read the online doc of comment-dwim, quote: “If the
> region is active and `transient-mark-mode' is on, ...”. For more than
> 99% of professional programers, they'll go: “What the heck is
> transient mark??”
> 
> and if you ask them what is “CUA”, they'd go “HUH????”

No problems here, since those ``professional programmers'' simply
don't read documentation.  So they will never be stumped by this
terminology.  But if they would somehow, by sheer mistake, manage to
read that, there's a Glossary section which explains everything.