Re: delete-selection-mode as default

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:41:20 -0400
> 
> > The _only_ problem I personally have with delete-selection-mode is
> > that it also replaces the region created by the likes of "C-x C-x",
> > something that "most software out there" does not and cannot do.
> 
> AFAIU the issue here is that you're using C-x C-x as navigation (a habit
> you might have gotten from the time when transient-mark-mode was
> disabled) rather than as a way to activate the region.
> 
> So I think this is a not a problem with d-s-m but with C-x C-x.
> 
> Also, I think it's a problem that comes from your habits, and if d-s-m
> had always been enabled you'd simply have different habits and wouldn't
> suffer from it.

A lot of Emacs commands put a mark before moving "far away" (for some
value of "far"), the reason being that the user might want to return
there.  What would you suggest as a "different habit" for returning to
that previous place, instead of "C-x C-x"?

And, btw, I find nothing wring with this habit of mine, the only
problem here is that someone decided that "C-x C-x" should activate
the region.

> So I'm not sure it's an argument against d-s-m, really.

Indeed, it could be an argument against "C-x C-x" and/or
transient-mark-mode, except that "C-x C-x" was there first.