From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:39:38 -0700 Message-ID: <47E849CA.5010006@emf.net> References: <87myopnj0l.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20080324115510.GA1563@muc.de> <20080324151053.158b3048@reforged> <47E83CC4.4030608@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206403230 21086 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2008 00:00:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mike Mattie , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 25 01:01:00 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 1Jdwb3-00067d-2z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:00:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JdwaS-0006Di-33 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:00:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JdwaO-0006D3-D4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:00:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JdwaM-0006Ck-Ot for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:00:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JdwaM-0006Ch-MO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:00:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.42inc.com ([205.149.0.25]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (SSL 3.0:RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JdwaI-0004qX-50; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:00:10 -0400 X-TFF-CGPSA-Version: 1.5 X-TFF-CGPSA-Filter-42inc: Scanned X-42-Virus-Scanned: by 42 Antivirus -- Found to be clean. Original-Received: from [69.236.65.4] (account lord@emf.net HELO [192.168.1.64]) by mail.42inc.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.13) with ESMTPA id 26309880; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:00:03 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060808) In-Reply-To: <47E83CC4.4030608@gnu.org> 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:93357 Archived-At: Jason Rumney wrote: > Mike Mattie wrote: >> One vital aspect missing from the discussion was the reason why >> windows/mac highlighting works the way it does. > > Calling it windows/mac highlighting seems to me to be a dishonest way > of denigrating it. Pretty much every X application other than Emacs > highlights the region like this. > > That's not the problem. The problem is that calling it "windows/mac highlighting" suggests that it works that way for users -- that it actually has a "look and feel" that matches those other systems. It doesn't match those other systems so that's misleading. -t