Re: Some developement questions

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 07:56:13 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
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> 
> > > we should turn on `delete-selection-mode' by default.
> > 
> > I don't think we can, because it gets in the way when editing code.
> 
> How so? It doesn't get in my way. Quite the contrary - I appreciate
> it for editing code.
> 
> Please give a recipe

Type "C-x C-x", then some letter: puff! the whole region is gone.
This could be okay in text modes, but in code buffers users generally
don't replace regions with single letters.