Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful

[Christoph]

On 9/19/2010 7:55 AM, Sebastian Rose wrote:

> C-g is a superfluous extra keystroke in this case.
> It will be (is) typed billions of times just because of a wrong
> decision.

Sebastian,
I get your point. You like the traditional way of Emacs' behavior and 
the more I read about it, the better I understand why.

However, there are no absolute truths when it comes to discussing 
efficiency in editing, since there are always personal preferences and 
habits involved. I might argue, that selecting text (with transient mark 
mode) and then replacing the text instantly with new text by inserting 
characters, like any other editor does, is a lot more efficient than 
having to kill the selection first (or let alone, delete with M-x 
delete-region!) and then inserting characters. You object, since that is 
not the way you are used to working.

Christoph