[wavemode]

This thread is mostly "I don't use this feature of Emacs (or Emacs at all) therefore this isn't a real problem, so stop complaining." Poor to see.

I'd rather people who do regularly use the feature weigh in on how they feel about its new behavior.

[ginko]

As a long-time emacs user who's never used registers I still think this is very poor form from the maintainers.

Emacs should be about customization and changing such a basic feature without a way to return to the original behavior is pretty bad.

[tmtvl]

It'll take me a day or two to get used to it and then it'll be fine for me. But I only really use registers to quickly jump around in buffers. If no configuration for switching to the old behaviour makes it in before Emacs 30 is released I'd be surprised if it were to take more than a week before someone makes a package that adds the old behaviour back in.

[CoastalCoder]

For an established tool like Emacs, it must be hard to decide when it's okay to break the interface. Especially for a text editor, where longtime users' flow benefits from muscle memory.