Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup writes:
>
>  > > In contrary I think cua-mode is an excellent help for many
>  > > beginners.
>  > 
>  > But should we make them beginners forever?
>
> The people who are beginners at any given time are beginners at that
> time.  This will be true forever, and at present rates of growth
> that's about half as long as it will take Emacs to get a majority
> share of editor users.  (I don't think that's an appropriate goal; I
> simply propose that there will be plenty of people to recruit to be
> beginners forever.)
>
>  > Could be just me, but I don't remember things being that bad
>
> Oh, wow.  I do.  I remember when ESC quit anything, except that ESC
> ESC ESC ESC replied, "Buwhahaha!  Can't hack buffers, can you?" and
> left you in the minibuffer.

"that bad" meaning the fabrication of ad-hoc straw men in list
discussions.  Combined with creative editing, you make another one here.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum