Re: Should C-x C-x activate the region? [was: C-d deleting region considered harmful]

[Richard Stallman]

    > are there many such annoyed users?  If so
    > then perhaps we should simply make that change to the default behavior: 
_not_
    > have `C-x C-x' activate the region.

The reason C-x C-x activates the region
is so that you can have a way to activate it
without changing it.

That is a very useful thing to do, so it needs to be short.  If C-x
C-x ceases to work, and the new method is less convenient, that is
a step backward.