Re: AW: delete-selection-mode

[Juri Linkov]

>>> telling users ... about the advantage having delsel-mode off.
>>
>> There is none.
>
> You can set the mark, move somewhere else, type stuff there, and return
> using C-x C-x, again typing stuff there, without destroying anything you
> have written.
>
> The mark is, well, a _mark_.  Something you can set temporarily easily,
> later to return.

Do you really use this with t-t-m?

There is a simple principle wrt t-t-m: when the region is active then
keys change their usual meaning.  With delete-selection-mode this
includes <delete> and other self-inserting keys in addition to
existing keys that already have a special meaning in t-m-m.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/