Re: delete-selection-mode as default

[Yuri Khan]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:02 PM Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion, but...  When I said "my font-locking", I
> meant _MY_ font-locking.  I run Emacs on a Linux virtual terminal, which
> has 16 colours altogether.  The only useful thing I could customize the
> region face to would be a null face, but then I would have no warning of
> the region becoming "active".  Currently the region face is a solid dark
> blue background, which obliterates all other uses of highlighting on the
> screen.

Well, yes, your setup imposes severe limitations. Even then, I think
black normal background and blue region background (or vice versa)
would be usable.