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24.0.50; DEL screwed up

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 7260 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, rms <at> gnu.org, miles <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:24:19 +0200

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:45:15 +0200
> Cc: Miles Bader <miles <at> gnu.org>, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org,
> 	7260 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:
> 
> >> Huh.  I though transient-mark-mode was new(ish)?
> >
> > etc/NEWS.19:
> >
> > * Changes in version 19.
> 
> I mean, as a thing that's on by default.  (Stuff that's not on by
> default doesn't exist for most people.)  People really started
> complaining about this behaviour this year, so I'm assuming something
> changed somewhere.

  2008-03-23  Chong Yidong  <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

	  * simple.el (transient-mark-mode): Turn on by default.


Hardly "this year".

FWIW, the first thing I do in any Emacs I need to work is turn this
off.

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