Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default

[David Kastrup]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> "paul r" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> 2008/3/30, M Jared Finder <address@hidden>:
>>>
>>>>  If you want to keep users coming to Emacs to stay with Emacs, cua-mode
>>>>  should be on by default.
>>> Although I hope your POV is a bit extremist as of today, I think you
>>> stated clearly the general trend. As I previously said between lines,
>>> I'm experiencing similar behaviour of people giving up emacs after a
>>> few days because of unacceptable (to them) drop in their
>>> "productivity".
>>
>> cua-mode will not help them much.  Emacs will remain different.
>
> In contrary I think cua-mode is an excellent help for many
> beginners.

But should we make them beginners forever?

> That Emacs is different does not mean that cua-mode does not help.

What about "much" did you not understand?

At the moment I am getting rather annoyed at the amount of strawmen I
perceive getting thrown at me on the Emacs list, on a variety of topics.
Could be just me, but I don't remember things being that bad.  It's bad
enough if people pick out just a single fragment you wrote to base their
arguments on.  But if they pick up an invention of their own, it is
quite frustrating.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum