Re: delete-selection-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

> At one point of time you will have to decide either arguing that Emacs
> provides obvious benefits over competing products, or not.

Compared to things like Eclipse, I see the following significant
advantages:

- does not impose a particular workflow or combination of tools.

That's it.  To me there are of course many more advantages (e.g. it also
works in a tty; I can read my email with it reusing the familiar and
powerful editing features; lightweight (who'd have thought!?); ...).


        Stefan