> 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).
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