Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default

[Sascha Wilde]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 07:00:10PM -0400, Chong Yidong wrote:
>> Thanks for all those who contributed to the recent discussion on the
>> list.  I've discussed this some more with Stefan, and the result is
>> that Transient Mark Mode is now turned on by default, in the trunk.
[...]
> I say, yet again, Transient Mark Mode is NOT a good default.  It violates
> the philosophy of Emacs in several ways:
[...]

FWIW: Full Ack.

As I wrote on this topic before:  I was used to put forms into my .emacs
to turn on fancy features that I consider worthwhile -- nowadays I find
my self more and more often fiddling with .emacs to turn annoying
features of.

I liked the philosophy behind the old way better: make the defaults
simple and clean and leave it to the user to turn on all the bells,
whistles and trautonii he likes.

cheers
sascha
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Sascha Wilde
Real programmers don't want "what you see is what you get", they want
"you asked for it, you got it".  They want editors that are terse,
powerful, cryptic, and unforgiving.  In a word, Teco.