Re: AW: delete-selection-mode

[David Kastrup]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> telling users ... about the advantage having delsel-mode off.
>>>
>>> There is none.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> The mark is, well, a _mark_.  Something you can set temporarily easily,
>> later to return.
>
> Do you really use this with t-t-m?
>
> There is a simple principle wrt t-t-m: when the region is active then
> keys change their usual meaning.

Those "keys" that operate on a region of text, like query-replace.
Different kettle of fish.

> With delete-selection-mode this includes <delete> and other
> self-inserting keys in addition to existing keys that already have a
> special meaning in t-m-m.

Normal text entry is affected, yes.

-- 
David Kastrup