Re: AW: delete-selection-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> The slightly more advanced beginner who doesn't want to use the mouse
>>> will instead use an arrow key, again like they do in every other
>>> editing context that they've ever used.  Again, they will get no bell.
>> Hmm?? The arrow key will not (in general) deactivate the region.
> I tested it before I sent my response, just to make sure that it
> wasn't some setting of mine.  

>       With bzr emacs revno 99685
>       Run emacs with -Q
>       load some multiline chunk of text
>       sweep out a chunk of that text with the mouse
>       watch it become highlighted

Ah, but here you do use the mouse.  That's the detail that makes the
arrow key deactivate the region.


        Stefan