Re: delete-selection-mode

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Naive users will not be bothered by this since they will only see a
>> region that behaves like a region in other editing environments.
>
> That's extremely limited thinking.

You are probably just misunderstanding again. I hope it is not intentionally.

> It assumes that users who use those
> commands will _never_ use the Emacs repertoire of marking commands;

Not at all.

> if
> they do, they'll be confronted by inconsistent behavior for no obvious
> reason.  That may well discourage them from exploring further -- and
> that's _bad_; the Emacs commands are superior, if unfamiliar at first.

I am quite sure you can see some contradictions in what you are saying here.