Re: delete-selection-mode

[David Kastrup]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
>> My view is that we should never make something default in Emacs if
>> it's likely to provoke the angry reaction "How do I disable this
>> *!£$ing thing?".  delete-select-mode falls into this latter category.
>> So does transient-mark-mode.
>
> So do fringes, toolbars, menus, scrollbars, the splash screen, syntax
> highlighting and almost every other change we've made to Emacs over
> the years.

None of them destroy your text given the same keystrokes.

-- 
David Kastrup