Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David Kastrup wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > David Kastrup wrote:
> > > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > > Don't we all think that new users probably want the highlight the way
> > > > cua-mode does it?
> > > No, we don't.  That was easy.
> > ;-)
> >
> > So some of us think that new users want highlighting in Emacs to
> > differ from most other applications they use. Can someone summarize
> > what differences we expect them to like? And maybe why?
>
> Because a web browser is not an editor?  Because in other applications
> it is usual only to mark small visible areas instead of large ones?  And
> do that with the mouse (which works in Emacs just as expected, anyway)?

In what way does cua-mode interfere here? (Except for the key bindings.)

> If new users wanted everything to be the same as elsewhere, they would
> not try Emacs in the first place.  For example, cut&paste&kill using the
> mouse in Emacs is vastly superior to how other applications do it (they
> require using the keyboard for that, or context menus, or toolbar
> buttons).  It would be nonsensical to make Emacs inferior so that people
> don't have to learn how Emacs is better than their usual applications.

What you say here seems reasonable, but I never use a mouse in Emacs.

The point is of course that new users should be able to use their old 
habits as far as possible + new features from Emacs.

> So could you please take your strawman elsewhere?  Nobody ever proposed
> that Emacs should behave differently from other applications merely for
> the sake of being different.

I don't think I said so. I am sorry if my little joke upset you.