Re: delete-selection-mode as default

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 08:37:12 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden,
>         Joost Kremers
>  <address@hidden>,
>         Noam Postavsky <address@hidden>,
>         Emacs
>  developers <address@hidden>, Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>,
>         Phillip Lord
>  <address@hidden>
> 
> What's the real use case for such temporary enabling/disabling of d-s-m? And 
> how is it different from just, well, enabling/disabling d-s-m?

People who are against turning on delete-selection-mode presented
several such use cases.

> In any case, how do you envision enabling/disabling d-s-m as something 
> different from turning d-s-m on/off? If you want some key(s) to 
> enable/disable it, how is that different from just binding a key (or keys) to 
> `delete-selection-mode'?

Why don't you ask the same question about transient-mark-mode?  My
idea was to extend the feature of region activation, which would avoid
the need for turning on and off the mode.