Re: AW: delete-selection-mode

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Chong Yidong <address@hidden> wrote:
> I use delete-selection mode, but mainly for one reason: I want DEL to
> delete the region when it's active.
>
> This argument
>
>>> You can set the mark, move somewhere else, type stuff there, and return
>>> using C-x C-x, again typing stuff there, without destroying anything you
>>> have written.
>
> sounds reasonable, since it's not a priori obvious (apart from the
> behavior of other applications) that self-inserting characters should
> "operate on the region".  That's why I am not sure about making
> delete-selection-mode the default.

In technical questions, can there really be any intuition apart from
that built by experience?

> However, I do feel that the "DEL acts on the region" part of
> delete-selection-mode is strongly intuitive.