Re: delete-selection-mode as default

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 11:02:54 -0400
> 
> > Fine, then we agree.  The above issue is not relevant to what I
> > perceive as the main problem here: how to give us a way to allow
> > turning on delete-selection-mode without alienating users who have no
> > use for it and very much dislike its effects, in particular when those
> > effects are unintended.
> 
> AFAIK d-s-m has currently only 2 effects:
> - delete the selection before self-insert-command
> - same before yank
> 
> In both cases, if that's not what the user intended, an important
> question is: why was the region active before those commands?

Because the user did "C-x C-x"?