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Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:01:40 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

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


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