Re: AW: delete-selection-mode

[Miles Bader]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> This will be a good occasion to get rid of the butt-ugly and
> bug-inducing code that implements the feature now.  And it will provide
> the DEL part of delete-selection-mode.
>
> I'd be happy to also provide the self-insert behavior of
> delete-selection-mode, but at least this intermediate step sounds very
> good to me.
>
> The implementation should keep an eye towards generalizing it to
> self-insertion keys (i.e. maybe it should just use the code from
> delete-selection-mode).

That all sounds perfect.

The "DEL deletes" functionality seems the main thing; a mode which only
did that would probably be fine, and solve 95% of the muscle-memory-
from-other-apps issues.

-Miles

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