Subject: bug#6909: closed (Re: bug#6909: transient-mark-mode)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:57:01 +0000

Your bug report

#6909: transient-mark-mode

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
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Subject: Re: bug#6909: transient-mark-mode
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:56:06 -0400
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I don't see a point to keeping this particular report open.
The issue has been done to death on other emacs mailing lists.

Subject: transient-mark-mode
From: Marco Bisetto <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:58:53 +0000
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Hi all,

This is not a bug, it's a wrong feature:

- transient-mark-mode on by default is a bad idea

- transient-mark-mode is a bad idea per se: you must press more keys and
  waste energy for no reason

- Active Region Highlighting is nonsense if you use rectangles such as in
  C-x r t

- Active Region Highlighting is a pain if you change your mind and no more
  want to act on the region you just marked

* transient-mark-mode off by default is a possible workaround to this bad
  situation where everybody must set it to nil in the configuration file

Bye.

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Marco Bisetto

A few releases ago theese three lines weren't necessary in .emacs.el:

(global-set-key [home] 'beginning-of-buffer)
(global-set-key [end] 'end-of-buffer)
(setq transient-mark-mode nil)