Re: d-s-m default: Nil + explanation!

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Davis Herring <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> So you seriously believe that currently it is not possible for a
>>> prospective user to do even the simplest editing in Emacs.
>>
>> Yes I do.
>>
>> In simple editing I include that the visible region behaves as they do
>> in other editing environment. That is something I have seen people
>> using very frequently.
>
> But is that "the simplest editing" or merely "simple editing"?  The former
> is more objective than the latter, because most of us would agree on an
> approximate order of complexity among editing operations, but it is quite
> arbitrary where to draw the line between "simple" operations and the
> others.

I do not think it is very arbitrary. I see people erasing/overwriting
the visible region all the time. And I see them selecting it with both
mouse and keyboard.