Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default

[Thomas Lord]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Mike Mattie wrote:
> > One vital aspect missing from the discussion was the reason why 
> > windows/mac highlighting works the way it does.
>
> Calling it windows/mac highlighting seems to me to be a dishonest way 
> of denigrating it. Pretty much every X application other than Emacs 
> highlights the region like this.

That's not the problem. 

The problem is that calling it "windows/mac highlighting"
suggests that it works that way for users -- that it actually
has a "look and feel" that matches those other systems.
It doesn't match those other systems so that's misleading.

-t