From: Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 16:54:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2008171852010394.767@sdf.lonestar.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41360AD3-4EE0-4170-98CB-8167DAB51029@easesoftware.com>
>>> For example, changing the way something as fundamental as regions work
>>> in a very mature editor is just a bad idea. A really really bad idea.
>>> By all means, define some other type of region and let that have other
>>> semantics, or, let users opt in to incompatible regions by having them
>>> set a variable in their .emacs.
>>>
>>
>> Like Eli, I really wonder what this means. I've been using Emacs for
>> about 25 years, and I've not seen any change in the way regions work.
>
> Perhaps he is talking about transient-mark-mode?
>
I don't think so. It was introduced in Emacs 19 (almost thirty years
ago!), and it only requires (transient-mark-mode -1) in .emacs to be
disabled.
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-16 20:57 Another Emacs incompatibilty Torbjörn Granlund
2020-08-16 21:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-16 23:02 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 8:12 ` On the rate of change [was: Another Emacs incompatibilty] tomas
2020-08-17 14:21 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 15:20 ` tomas
2020-08-17 17:44 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 15:14 ` Another Emacs incompatibilty Torbjörn Granlund
2020-08-17 15:54 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-17 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-17 20:16 ` Torbjörn Granlund
2020-08-17 20:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-17 21:22 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 22:00 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 22:18 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-17 23:00 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-18 0:25 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-18 4:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-18 4:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-18 5:27 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-18 5:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-23 20:10 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-24 6:43 ` Alan Davis
2020-08-24 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-24 23:21 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-24 14:31 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-24 23:24 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-25 0:53 ` Alan Davis
2020-08-25 4:09 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-25 4:14 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-25 4:30 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-25 5:04 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-25 5:46 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-25 6:07 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-25 5:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-24 15:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-24 23:14 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-18 15:47 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-18 16:45 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-18 16:52 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-18 17:50 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-18 17:10 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 16:31 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 16:49 ` Perry Smith
2020-08-17 16:54 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2020-08-17 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-17 17:28 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-17 17:16 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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