Re: [PATCH] Proposal to change cursor appearance to indicate region activation

[Kelly Dean]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Having it nil by default makes it basically useless: there are already
> packages (such as cursor-chg.el) which provided that kind
> of functionality.

There are already other modes that are part of Emacs but nil by default. Some 
that I use include electric-pair, show-paren, winner, delete-selection, 
whitespace, savehist, and desktop-save.

And a couple days ago you wrote:
> Two options:
> - keep the default as nil.
> - change the code to only modify the cursor-type if it hasn't been changed.