Re: delete-selection-mode

[Juri Linkov]

>>> So enabling delete-selection-mode should not affect them.
>
>>     delete-selection-mode is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in
>>     `delsel.el'.
>
>> [...]
>
>>     When Delete Selection mode is enabled, Transient Mark mode is also
>>     enabled and typed text replaces the selection if the selection is
>>     active.  Otherwise, typed text is just inserted at point regardless
>>     of any selection.
>
>> So wrong on count #2 as well.
>
> I take it for granted that if we enable something like
> delete-selection-mode, we'll only make it do something when the region
> is active, so people who turned t-m-m off will only be affected when
> they do C-u C-x C-x or when they do C-SPC C-SPC to explicitly activate
> the region (or when they select with the mouse).  In this sense, people
> who turned off t-m-m pretty much won't be affected.

Yes, this is exactly what I meant.  That's why I said "delete-selection-mode
SHOULD NOT affect them".  Sorry I didn't elaborate more in my previous post.

-- 
Juri Linkov
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