Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly

[David Kastrup]

"rgb" <rbielaws@i1.net> writes:

> It isn't really.  But the tutorial only teaches the `hard way' and
> the defaults have the cool stuff turned off so you must learn all
> about customizing and what's available and how to turn each feature
> on before your really using it.  Even transient-mark-mode is off by
> default.

Transient mark mode is an abomination.  It really needed to be
replaced by the implementation of temporary transient mark mode (which
also is activated by dragging the mouse) in Emacs 22.

Have you tried CVS Emacs recently?  There definitely is no reason to
use transient-mark mode permanently any more.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum