Re: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions)

[Bingo]

On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 15:24:30 -0700 (PDT)
Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:

> So again, what's the advantage to it being off? (It's not a
> rhetorical question.) Is there really some useful "option"
> that its being off offers? Does that give you additional
> choice or control?
> 

Hi Drew,
   You might be comfortable with Emacs undo. What is your opinion on
   new users' comfort level with it ? The advantage with d-s-m
   being off is it leads to less accidental deletions, hence less need
   to undo.  I have 8000 hours of Emacs under my belt and I can manage
   only evil-mode's simplified undo/redo in spite of its weakness. 

Emacs should not half-ass the embracing of new users. Either go the
full hog - CUA, C-z undo, C-y redo (real redo), C-s save, C-a select
all, shift-selection-mode, right-click context menu.  Only then there
is any hope for the non-manual-readers.

If only d-s-m is  enabled, and there is an accidental selected text
deletion - user would try C-z : which would weirdly vanish their
window. After frantically finding the window back, they would try C-y
for redo to correct anything this C-z might have done. C-y would paste
their accidentally killed selected text at a place where their cursor
found itself while they were confused.

thanks