Re: delete-selection-mode

[David Kastrup]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> With the current semantics of active regions and delete-selection-mode,
>> I consider the end result painful.  That does not change that it may
>> also be in some cases be useful.
>>
>> Does really nobody have an idea how to improve the situation?
>
> Do I understand you right when I assume that the painful thing for old
> users would be that typing new text would delete the selection?
>
> Many new users expects this.

Not when they are not expecting an active region in the first place.
There are more ways to make a region active than the explicit ways that
a "new user expects".

> If the default will be that typing new text replaces the visible
> region then maybe there should be a substate where it is possible to
> type in new text while the region is visible? One way this could be
> done is to let C-x C-x go into that substate (in addition to doing
> what it does now).
>
> Would that be to inconvinient?

It sounds messy.  We already have too many different region states.

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