Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default

[Bastien]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

> Evans Winner, in his post from 2008-02-20 (Message-ID:
> <address@hidden>) tells us how his unthinking enablement
> of TMM prevented him from understanding the versatility of the mark.
> It seems to me (though I may be wrong, of course) that it was the
> (somewhat arbitrary) complexity imposed by TMM which disguised the
> ingenious simplicity of the mark.

Maybe people overlooked this argument so far, but this is a strong one. 

In the same stream of thoughts, if Transient Mark Mode is enabled by
default then beginners (or those who never customize their Emacs) will
always live in this world:

  no highlighted region = no active mark

No sure they will gain something from that.  And C-SPC C-SPC is really
not *that* far, is it?

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Bastien