RE: delete-selection-mode

[Drew Adams]

>     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?

Yes.

> If so, perhaps it is a bug.

No.

> Perhaps the feature should only apply when you make the region
> using the mouse.

If people are unfamiliar with `delete-selection-mode' and do not want to make it
the default behavior, fine. But please do not mess with the behavior of
`delete-selection-mode'. It does not need to be "fixed".

If you don't like it, then don't use it. If you don't want it to be the default,
then don't make it the default. But leave it alone, at least, for those of us
who appreciate it.