Re: delete-selection-mode

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Someone (Alan) wrote:
>
>     > You have misconstrued Richard's post.  He went on to say that what is
>     > useful for newcomers isn't necessarily what they expect or "want".
>     > There's thus no indication there that he would support the rest of your
>     > argument.
>
> He is right about what I said, as a general point.
> Whether it is relevant to this issue, I am not sure.
>
> If delete-selection-mode affects only what DEL does after a
> mouse-selection,

It doesn't.  mouse-region-delete-keys is already set in a manner that
DEL deletes a mouse-selected region.  delete-selection-mode extends this
behavior also to regions selected in other ways, and deletes the
contents of the active region also when you type self-inserting
characters.

What you think people are asking for here is already the default.
delete-selection-mode does quite more.

-- 
David Kastrup