Re: delete-selection-mode

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David Kastrup wrote:
> "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".

Why does that matter? Are we not talking about a visibly marked region?


> > 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.

But the wish to make this work for both new and old users call for a new 
state, right?