Re: delete-selection-mode

[Jason Rumney]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:


> My view is that we should never make something default in Emacs if
> it's likely to provoke the angry reaction "How do I disable this
> *!£$ing thing?".  delete-select-mode falls into this latter category.
> So does transient-mark-mode.

So do fringes, toolbars, menus, scrollbars, the splash screen, syntax
highlighting and almost every other change we've made to Emacs over the
years.