Re: AW: delete-selection-mode

[Juri Linkov]

> More importantly, it's consistent with the existing semantics of
> transient mark mode.  Many Emacs commands act on the region when it's
> active, and it seems natural for DEL to be one of these commands.
>
> By contrast, it's not clear to me that self-inserting characters ought
> to "act on the region" in the sense of replacing its contents.

As I understand from counter-arguments, opponents agree with
self-inserting characters replacing the region, but only when
the region is activated explicitly, and not by side-effects of
setting the mark or exchanging the mark and point.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/