Re: delete-selection-mode (was: Put scroll-bar on right by default on UNIX.)

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Juri Linkov <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> delete-selection-mode would be the default too, that's what everything
>>> on the desktop does...
>
> I agree with Richard that the primary concern is doing what is useful
> for newcomers.  One of the most frequent questions they ask is how to do
> what most other editors do - to replace selected text with a typed
> character or with yanked text, and to delete the region by typing <delete>
> without copying it to the kill-ring.
>
> What they are asking for is delete-selection-mode,
> but they can't find it in the documentation because
> the feature name says nothing to beginners, and
> they expect to take this functionality for granted.
...
> Is that reason enough to enable delete-selection-mode by default?


In my opinion, yes.