Re: delete-selection-mode

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >    I think it is a very good suggestion to be able to have
>> >    one color for regions that act in way compatible with almost
>> >    every editing environment and one that acts in the way special
>> >    to Emacs.
>> >
>> > I have nothing against this feature, but I point out that choosing
>> > another color, and making it properly distinctive in two different
>> > color environments (dark background and light background), is not
>> > going to be easy.
>>
>> Maybe use secondary-selection for the Emacs version?
>
> No thanks. We're looking for less confusion, not more.

Please explain. Is anyone really using secondary-selection? (I do have
one library using it, but I do not use x so I am not sure whether it
is used otherwise.)