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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@mit.edu>
Cc: Phil Sung <psung@mit.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guided tour suggestions
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:04:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ejku6pbq.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k5umdqos.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat\, 02 Jun 2007 16\:52\:51 -0400")

Chong Yidong <cyd@mit.edu> writes:

> Also, I wonder if the tour should mention transient mark mode.  Now
> that font-lock-mode is on by default, transient mark mode is IMHO
> the reigning champion for Feature That Should Be Turned On By
> Default But Isn't.

I disagree strongly.  Temporary transient mark mode is quite filling
that niche.  The constant interference of unintended active regions
with both buffer display and operation is not making permanent
transient-mark-mode something I would want enabled.

-- 
David Kastrup

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-02 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-03 18:03 guided tour suggestions Karl Berry
2007-05-03 20:34 ` Phil Sung
2007-06-02 20:52   ` Chong Yidong
2007-06-02 21:04     ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-06-02 22:08     ` Drew Adams
2007-06-03  8:23       ` Mathias Dahl
2007-06-03 15:32       ` David House
2007-06-11 20:01     ` Phil Sung
2007-06-11 20:19       ` Drew Adams
2007-06-27  1:16         ` Phil Sung
2007-06-27  4:28           ` Drew Adams
2007-06-27  5:45           ` David Kastrup
2007-06-27  6:04             ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-27  7:37               ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28  7:02             ` Phil Sung
2007-06-28  7:20               ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28  9:54                 ` David House
2007-06-28 10:25                   ` David Kastrup
2007-08-09  7:15                 ` Phil Sung
2007-08-09  7:36                   ` David Kastrup
2007-08-13  8:09                     ` Phil Sung
2007-06-28  8:20               ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-28  8:36                 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-29 16:41               ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-30  1:16               ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-30 10:03                 ` David House
2007-07-22 10:59                   ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-05-03 22:30 ` David Koppelman
2007-05-03 22:41   ` Daniel Brockman
2007-05-04  5:09 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-05-04  7:32   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-05 14:39 ` Randal L. Schwartz

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