Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default

[Jason Rumney]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> But that's beside the point.  Yes, David, you are different from the
> majority of beginning users of editors these days.  That is, they
> want their editor to have no learning curve at all.  It should start
> out easy, and stay easy, and do things for them.  They do not want to
> learn anything about the editor.
>   

I don't think it is true that they never want to learn anything, there 
would be no point in switching to anything from notepad if that was the 
case. But beginning users expect to be able to start doing basic text 
editing without having to learn anything, and gradually learn how to 
make better use of their chosen tool.

I started using CUA mode many years ago, for the opposite reason of  I 
expect most CUA users. Emacs keybindings were so ingrained that I had 
trouble using other software, so I decided to train myself to use the 
CUA bindings. I have honestly never encountered a problem with the CUA 
keys getting in the way (though I always used PgDn rather than C-v, I 
could see that one being a problem for some Emacs users).