Re: DEL key doesn't kill mouse-dragged region

[Richard M. Stallman]

    > With the most recent Emacs CVS, NOMIYA Masaru reported he cannot
    > delete the region that is made by dragging the mouse, using DEL
    > key.  I also confirmed Emacs 21.4 works but 22.0.50 doesn't.
    > Not much many people might not know such a function, though (and
    > I was not an exception).  Isn't it a side effect of some change?

    Hopefully, this is the opportunity to kill this "feature".
    If people want something like that, they should use delete-selection-mode.

Experienced users who want something like that can use
delete-selection-mode.  However, I'm concerned about beginners who
expect this behavior based on other editors.

Typing DEL after dragging a region is something that an experienced
Emacs user is unlikely to do.  So why not make it do what beginners
expect?