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Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly |
Date: |
Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:01:40 +0100 |
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steinab@ifi.uio.no (Steinar Børmer) writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>
> | Transient mark mode is an abomination. It really needed to be
> | replaced by the implementation of temporary transient mark mode
> | (which also is activated by dragging the mouse) in Emacs 22.
> |
> | Have you tried CVS Emacs recently? There definitely is no reason
> | to use transient-mark mode permanently any more.
>
> I don't quite see how you can say that. Temporary transient mark
> mode has a point, yes, but I would rather have it enabled
> permanently rather than needing a keybinding each time I need it.
> (I never mark a region with the mouse).
With transient-mark-mode, the region tends to be marked when it annoys
me, and unmarked when I would need it.
> The problem for me is that without transient mark mode, I often run
> into situations where I mark the "wrong" region, and then I have to
> go back and do it all over again. Then I'd have to press `C-SPC
> C-SPC' before marking once more.
An "active region" is more than just the area between point and an
active mark. For things like cut&paste, it amounts to pretty much the
same, but it also affects search&replace operation and, say, in AUCTeX
what happens if you use the keybindings for insertion environments and
font selection commands (which go _around_ the active region).
> Would you care to elaborate on this?
You don't need to "go back and do it all over again". Just use
C-u C-x C-x to activate or reactivate an existing region.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Making Emacs more newbie friendly, PT, 2005/03/18
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/03/19
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- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, PT, 2005/03/19
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, David Kastrup, 2005/03/19
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/03/19
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/03/19
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, nfreimann, 2005/03/19
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/03/19