Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default

[Mike Mattie]

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:47:15 +0200
David Kastrup <address@hidden> 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.
> 

at least for programmers it will take more than cua mode to match productivity
offered in other environments. Navigating and analyzing code and documentation 
is 
far more important. I use eclipse, a horrible editor & UI simply for the 
analysis tools.

Cheers,
Mike Mattie

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