Re: AW: delete-selection-mode

[Juri Linkov]

> And get a bell.  In the course of a normal editing operation.
>
> We are talking about the beginner setup, remember?  The beginner that
> did not yet customize things (like visible-bell) because he does not
> know how.  The beginner that tries Emacs in an office full of people.

IIRC, we decided to turn off the bell by default and use visible-bell
in the next release:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-11/msg01050.html

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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/