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Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default
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Bastien |
Subject: |
Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:54:21 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
"paul r" <address@hidden> writes:
> 1 - Tmm suits better what any beginner expect than default emacs marks.
> 2 - It can be turned off by advanced users
> --> Good choice. Thanks
I don't follow this reasoning. More than that: I think _nobody_ really
does -- yes, even you, Paul :)
Remember when you first learned Emacs? Did it behave like you would
expect a text editor to behave? At least for me the answer is no, it
behave in a radically new way. And today I am quite happy Emacs did not
behave like I would have expected it to behave, otherwise it would just
be yet-another-editor.
This is not about gurus/beginners, this is about (learning) paths: is
there a good path from Transient Mark mode to the simple mark? Is there
a path from the simple mark to Transient Mark mode?
--
Bastien
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, (continued)
- RE: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Drew Adams, 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Jari Aalto, 2008/03/29
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Sascha Wilde, 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Mike Mattie, 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, paul r, 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Mike Mattie, 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, paul r, 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default,
Bastien <=
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, paul r, 2008/03/25
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Bastien, 2008/03/25
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, paul r, 2008/03/26
- Honoring traditional defaults [was: Transient Mark Mode on by default], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/03/24
- RE: Honoring traditional defaults [was: Transient Mark Mode on bydefault], Drew Adams, 2008/03/24
- Re: Honoring traditional defaults [was: Transient Mark Mode on bydefault], paul r, 2008/03/24
- RE: Honoring traditional defaults [was: Transient Mark Mode on bydefault], Drew Adams, 2008/03/24
- Re: Honoring traditional defaults [was: Transient Mark Mode on bydefault], Mathias Dahl, 2008/03/25
- Re: Honoring traditional defaults, Bastien, 2008/03/24
- Re: Honoring traditional defaults, Bastien, 2008/03/24