Re: delete-selection-mode as default

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 21:44:19 +0200
> From: Ergus <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, Drew Adams <address@hidden>,
>       address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>       address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> The mark-point approach is not a fundamental emacs thing, it is just a
> design choice enforced for technical limitations 40 years ago (like the
> vi modes, the meta-hyper-syntax and so on) This means that (citing Bill
> Joy about vi) it was created for a world that doesn't exist anymore. So
> it can (and should) be updated/upgraded as many other things in emacs
> and any long living project.

I don't agree with you, and in any case it's pointless to try to argue
that using mark and point for navigation in Emacs should go away.  You
will never get this past long-time Emacs users.  We must look for
other ways.