Re: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions)

[Noam Postavsky]

On 7 September 2018 at 15:01,  <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 09:47:52AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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>> Feel free to start a user poll, though: if it turns out I'm the only
>> one who thinks delete-selection-mode is inappropriate in programming
>> modes [...]
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> This is from a seat far back in the peanut gallery, but no, Eli, you
> aren't the only one :-)
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> I know this "delete selection on  typing" behaviour, and I dislike it
> with passion.

But do you think it's ok for text (non-programming) buffers?