Re: Transient Region Highlighting - an improvement over Transient Mark Mode.

[paul r]

2008/4/1, Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden>:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:

>  Setting mark-even-if-inactive to t by default was a decision made to
>  make transient-mark-mode less annoying to people who do not use it,
>  are not going to use it ever and have no idea whatsoever about why
>  and how people use it.  I hope that not to many other changes have
>  been made to t-m-m for that same purpose in this seemingly endless
>  discussion.

After more thoughts, I also think it is not a newbie-friendly choice
to turn on mark-even-if-inactive. It is maybe even more confusing than
no tmm at all.
So if tmm is on by default in a move to make defaults easier for
newbies, mark-even-if-inactive should be let off.

>
>  I have used t-m-m ever since I used Emacs and if I use commands like
>  C-w and friends without having a region highlighted, so without being
>  able to verify what is going to be deleted, there is 100% certainty
>  that I typed C-w inadvertently, so the nice thing to do is to give me
>  an error message rather than to make me pay for my mistyping.

Yes, I agree.