Re: AW: delete-selection-mode

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Chong Yidong <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> shift-selection is an inferior method of marking a region.

That sounds strange. It is the common way for most editing environment
for selecting text.

> We provide
> shift-selection because the keybindings don't conflict with the
> canonical method, but it is a special case.

Is not the main reason to provide it compatibility?