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

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2018-09-10 14:16, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Actually, I'm not sure what the use of d-s-mode actually is.  I
> don't recall anyone here advocating it on some intrinsic merits

I did, in a previous message :) See below:

> On 2018-09-07 05:18, hw wrote:
>> When a selection is active, why would anyone assume that typing an 
>> arbitrary letter is supposed to replace the entire selection, or
>> to disable it?
> 
> Out of experience, mostly.  When almost every other program you use
> besides Emacs behaves that way, it's easy to assume that Emacs will
> behave the same way.
> 
>> Allowing that to happen is simply a design flaw, or an oversight.
> 
> I prefer to think of it as a very convenient feature.  For example,
> as I typed this email, I first wrote "as I composed" instead of "as I
> typed", pressed Control+Shift+Left Arrow, and pressed "typed".
> Similarly, I had first written "I call it" instead of "I prefer to
> think of it", and the way I changed one into the other was to select
> "call it" and type "prefer to think of it as".