Re: delete-selection-mode as default

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
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> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:22:44 -0400
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>   > Good to hear. I (mis)understood that, based on
>   > this from RMS on 09/10:
> 
>   >    ELi and I, the Emacs maintainers, are both
>   >    opposed to making delete-selection-mode
>   >    the default.
> 
>   > I misread that as a decision by the maintainers.
> 
> That's what I meant it as.  Eli had said he was against this change.
> I hope he is against it once again.

My opinion was and remains that delete-selection-mode cannot be turned
on by default without also taking some additional measures.  My
suggestions for one possible set of such measures drowned in the
irrelevant noise.  If someone wants to implement some variant of my
suggestions, or come up with a different idea to the same effect, we
can then resume the discussion whether delete-selection-mode could be
enabled by default together with implementing these additional
measures.

The "no such decision was made" part wanted to tell that this
"discussion" was hardly conducive to any decision-making, and
consequently no decisions were made.  Each one remains of their
previous opinions, for now.