Re: delete-selection-mode (was: FW: commands to select things of different kinds)

[Richard Stallman]

    > I am very much against enabling delete-selection-mode by default.

    I am very surprised.  What could be a reason not to delete the region
    after typing a character when this region was intentionally activated
    specially for doing this.

If it were indeed limited to cases when the region was intentionally
activated just for that, it would be fine.  But that would mean
reading the user's mind.