Re: delete-selection-mode

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>    It does have many more effects.  The most significant one is that any
>    self-inserting key typed when the region is active will cause the region
>    to be deleted before the char is inserted.
>
> Is this true even when the region has been activated by keyboard commands?
> If so, perhaps it is a bug.  Perhaps the feature should only apply when
> you make the region using the mouse.


I think it would be a very bad idea to introduce an invisible state
this way. (I agree with Klaus here - if I do not misunderstand him.)


> It would be useful to see precisely what the beginners said who
> complained about the current defaults.  What were their use cases?


I think they simple want the behaviour that they are used to from
editing taks in other application. (This requirement is the really big
obstacle not only for Emacs but for the whole free software movement.)