Re: delete-selection-mode as default

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > 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"?

So again the problem is not with d-s-m but with C-x C-x, then.

I think many users who are heavy users of the marks for navigation would
benefit from a "halfway" setting for transient-mark-mode, where commands
like C-M-SPC, M-h etc... still activate the region, but where C-SPC, and
C-x C-x don't.


        Stefan