From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Daniel Clemente <n142857@gmail.com>
Cc: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>,
emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: structure editing in brainstorming mode
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:28:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C49533D1-56F4-48FD-B400-1498FF256184@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ljtwinjz.fsf@CPU107.opentrends.net>
On Dec 31, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Daniel Clemente wrote:
>
>>> Thanks. But I had to turn on transient mark mode for it to work.
>>> Intended behavior I guess?
>>
>> Yes. Everybody should turn it on. Why would you not?
>>
>
> Why „should“ everyone use transient mark mode? Not everyone has to
> like that setting, and some may prefer to work without it.
>
> I myself find it confusing because when I set the mark, I want just
> to mark that point for later use (to jump quickly there, for
> instance). transient-mark-mode assumes that I always want to *start
> a region*, which is not true.
>
> I also like to select text without highlighting; it is less
> distracting and more readable.
>
>
> I wish you a (transient-mark-mode -1) and a happy new year :-)
OK, point taken. I hardly ever use the mark as a jumping point.
When I need to remember a position, most of the time I split the
window, go to where I want momentarily in the new window, and
then close that window again.
I thought that transient-mark-mode was the only way to make use
of commands that automatically use the region if one is active.
But because of your mail, I went back to the Emacs manual and
learned about the Momentary Mark, which is
transient-transient-mark-mode, sort of. Pretty nice, this is
a viable alternative to turning on transient-mark-mode, so viable
that I am now considering turning off transient-mark-mode :-)
OK, rephrase:
To use region-sensitive commands, everybody should either
turn on transient-mark-mode, or learn about the momentary mark.
May your transition into the next year be highlighted.
- Carsten
>
> Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-31 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-29 5:58 Rustom Mody
2008-12-29 12:51 ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-30 23:55 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-31 6:04 ` Rustom Mody
2008-12-31 8:07 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-31 11:36 ` Daniel Clemente
2008-12-31 13:28 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2008-12-31 13:33 ` Daniel Martins
2009-01-01 6:42 ` Rustom Mody
2009-01-01 8:58 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-01 22:53 ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-29 16:36 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-12-29 17:15 ` Nick Dokos
2008-12-30 0:50 ` Olaf Dietsche
2008-12-30 14:11 ` Rustom Mody
2008-12-31 0:23 ` Carsten Dominik
[not found] <200812291702.mBTH2sVD004384@bp34.u.washington.edu>
2008-12-29 19:44 ` Scott Otterson
2008-12-29 20:10 ` Matthew Lundin
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