Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default

[Tassilo Horn]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Alan,

> I say, yet again, Transient Mark Mode is NOT a good default.  It violates
> the philosophy of Emacs in several ways:
> (i) It's very complicated, certainly when compared with the elegant
>   simplicity of the classical Emacs mark.
> (ii) It introduces "modal" behaviour (as in vi's insert/command mode)
>   into Emacs - many commands behave differently when the mark is active.
> (iii) It's obtrusive; it's "in your face"; it will provoke the angry
>   reaction "how do I get rid of this address@hidden thing!!!!!".

For (ii) and (iii) you can set the mark and turing off TMM temporally
with C-SPC C-SPC.  So it's the exact opposite behavior of disabled TMM,
where C-SPC C-SPC enables TMM temporally.

I really like the new default, because most of the time I use marking to
apply commands to the region, so the highlighting is a good thing.  Only
when I set a mark for navigation purposes, I set it with C-SPC C-SPC, so
that the region highlighting doesn't distract me.

Bye,
Tassilo