Re: delete-selection-mode

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David Kastrup wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > > > > However rereading what you wrote I see that you said that there is
> > > > > > no way for the average (new) user to deactivate the region. He/she
> > > > > > can use the arrow keys without shift.
> > > > > That does not deactivate a region when transient-mark-mode is used.
> > > > Is that really the case?
> > > Better ask Emacs rather than this mailing-list.
> >
> > It would perhaps not get that emphasis if I just asked Emacs. The
> > answer is of course that the arrow keys without shift does deactivate
> > the region.
>
> Type C-SPC Right Right Right.  You get an active region.  It does not
> get inactivated by arrow keys without shift.
>
> So could you please try adapting your proposals to the actual Emacs
> behavior?

Excuse me, David. I give up for the moment. It would be fun wrestling 
with you if we could merge instead of diverge. Maybe we can do that some 
day. I think it could be creative.

Here we were talking about new users. One assumption is that they 
activate the region by typing for example shift-right. In that case an 
arrow key deactivate the region.