Re: delete-selection-mode

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   "Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

   > How about talking about users in general, not only new users use
   > emacs, emacs should have good defaults for both new and old users.

   If they had the same expectations, yes. But they are often
   incompatibles. In such a case, new users expectations should take
   precedence, simply because :
    - new users might give up because they don't realize that what they
      don't like is only a default setting, not inherent to the emacs
      program itself
    - old user know how to change a simple setting in 30 seconds

That is very short sighted way of looking at things, new users will
become old users with time.  A default setting is default because it
common by those who use something alot; if one cannot use emacs out of
the box without having to modify things, then something is terribly
wrong.