Re: AW: delete-selection-mode

[Juri Linkov]

>> 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.
>
> Not this "opponent". I agree with self-inserting characters replacing
> the active region _always_, no matter how it was activated. That's the
> point of "active".
>
> And I hold that the region should be activated simply by setting the mark or
> exchanging the mark and point.

That's my position too.  This problem is mostly irrelevant to enabling d-s-m.
Everyone who don't like C-SPC or C-x C-x activating the region can turn off
t-m-m or use additional C-u/C-g.

IOW, t-m-m should go hand in hand with d-s-m.  And turning off t-m-m
should also turn off d-s-m.

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