RE: AW: delete-selection-mode

[Drew Adams]

> > I agree with self-inserting characters replacing
> > the active region _always_, no matter how it was activated. 
> > That's the point of "active".
> 
> > And I hold that the region should be activated simply by setting the
> > mark or exchanging the mark and point.
> 
> With delete-selection-mode, commands like push-mark and pop-mark get
> side effects that tend to destroy text every time.

Care to elaborate?

I use both `push-mark' and `pop-mark' all day long, and I've never had any text
destroyed by either of them.