Re: Please stop proposing changes in defaults!

[Juri Linkov]

> Adding the attractive features of IDE is exactly the sort of work I
> think we should aim to do.  That is why I ask people to stop proposing
> incompatible changes in basic editing commands.  What makes IDEs
> convenient is not the details of their editing commands, it is the
> other capabilities they have.

If changing some defaults makes Emacs more attractive to IDE users
especially when such change doesn't hurt existing Emacs user, like
your suggestion to enable delete-selection-mode only after
shift-selection and mouse-selection, this would be a good thing.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/