Re: d-s-m default: Nil + explanation!

[Davis Herring]

>> So you seriously believe that currently it is not possible for a
>> prospective user to do even the simplest editing in Emacs.
>
> Yes I do.
>
> In simple editing I include that the visible region behaves as they do
> in other editing environment. That is something I have seen people
> using very frequently.

But is that "the simplest editing" or merely "simple editing"?  The former
is more objective than the latter, because most of us would agree on an
approximate order of complexity among editing operations, but it is quite
arbitrary where to draw the line between "simple" operations and the
others.

Davis

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