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Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty


From: Perry Smith
Subject: Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 11:49:35 -0500

> On Aug 17, 2020, at 11:31 AM, Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU 
> Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> Torbjörn Granlund:
>> 
>> For example, changing the way something as fundamental as regions work in a 
>> very mature editor is just a bad idea.  A really really bad idea. By all 
>> means, define some other type of region and let that have other semantics, 
>> or, let users opt in to incompatible regions by having them set a variable 
>> in their .emacs.
>> 
> 
> Like Eli, I really wonder what this means.  I've been using Emacs for about 
> 25 years, and I've not seen any change in the way regions work.

Perhaps he is talking about transient-mark-mode?




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