Re: delete-selection-mode

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:27 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I already said that I'd consider transient-mark-mode _off_ again a good
> solution and have an active region for shift-selection, mouse-selected,
> and explicit temporary transient-mark-mode.  In which case I don't mind
> delete-selection-mode much since it is in effect only for explicitly
> selected _regions_ instead of being a side-effect of using the _mark_.
>
> I have heard no arguments against that.


That might be because no one really thought you wanted that. Was not
transient-mark-mode turned on by default to make Emacs default
behaviour a bit more like other editing environments? (I do not
remember since I prefer cua-mode and would expect most new users to do
the same. However this seems like an impossible solution currently,
unfortunately.)