Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:00:39 -0600
> From: Christoph <address@hidden>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> On 9/18/2010 3:18 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> So I just switched off `transient-mark-mode', which is something I
> >> suspect most Emacs old-timers will be more comfortable with.
> >
> > Here's one such old-timer.
> 
> Out of curiosity, from old-timer to new-timer, what advantages does the 
> traditional Emacs behavior over transient-mark-mode?

I use "C-x C-x" _a_lot_ as a kind of one-time bookmark (augmented by
"C-u C-SPC" when necessary), to jump quickly between two spots in a
buffer.  With this paradigm, the region is not really "region", it's
just a portion of text between 2 loci of interest.  Therefore, it
drives my nuts that Emacs paints the text in color each time I type
"C-x C-x", because I have no intention of marking the region, I just
want to jump.

OTOH, I always have C-w or M-w if I want to kill the region.

So I have a very good reason _not_ to use transient-mark-mode, and
none to use it.