Re: DEL key doesn't kill mouse-dragged region

[Drew Adams]

    > With the most recent Emacs CVS, NOMIYA Masaru reported he cannot
    > delete the region that is made by dragging the mouse, using DEL
    > key.  I also confirmed Emacs 21.4 works but 22.0.50 doesn't.
    > Not much many people might not know such a function, though (and
    > I was not an exception).  Isn't it a side effect of some change?

    Hopefully, this is the opportunity to kill this "feature".
    If people want something like that, they should use
delete-selection-mode.

  Experienced users who want something like that can use
  delete-selection-mode.  However, I'm concerned about beginners who
  expect this behavior based on other editors.

  Typing DEL after dragging a region is something that an experienced
  Emacs user is unlikely to do.  So why not make it do what beginners
  expect?

Why not just turn on delete-selection-mode and transient-mark-mode, by
default? The only people to complain will be (some of the) experienced
users, and they can easily restore the current behavior.
Delete-selection-mode + transient-mark-mode together provide pretty much
what a newbie expects (and delete-selection-mode doesn't also impose the
multiple extra key bindings that pc-selection-mode sets up).

As it stands now, people have to somehow learn about delete-selection-mode
and transient-mark-mode, in order to discover that Emacs can be easier to
use than it is out of the box (IMO).