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

[Luc Teirlinck]

Drew Adams wrote:

   Why not just turn on delete-selection-mode and transient-mark-mode, by
   default?

Certainly not delete-selection-mode.  Its behavior is extremely
surprising, disturbing and difficult to understand for _real_ newbies
(newbies to editors, as opposed to experienced MS Windows users).

Yes, there are still people who are unfamiliar with the MS Windows
interface.  I am one of them.  But I have taught Math courses that use
mathematical software to Math Ed students, some of them middle aged
and with very limited computer knowledge.  I recommend that they use
Emacs as their editor.  They manage very well.  They do not seem to
have any of those problems newbies are _supposed_ to have, according
to the apparently prevailing wisdom on this list.

   The only people to complain will be (some of the) experienced
   users, and they can easily restore the current behavior.

_Real_ newbies might indeed not complain (at least not on emacs-devel,
Bug-gnu-emacs or similar lists), but they would suffer.

Sincerely,

Luc.