Drew Adams wrote: Why not just turn on delete-selection-mode and transient-mark-mode, by default?
Certainly not delete-selection-mode. Its behavior is extremely surprising, disturbing and difficult to understand for _real_ newbies (newbies to editors, as opposed to experienced MS Windows users). Yes, there are still people who are unfamiliar with the MS Windows interface. I am one of them. But I have taught Math courses that use mathematical software to Math Ed students, some of them middle aged and with very limited computer knowledge. I recommend that they use Emacs as their editor. They manage very well. They do not seem to have any of those problems newbies are _supposed_ to have, according to the apparently prevailing wisdom on this list. The only people to complain will be (some of the) experienced users, and they can easily restore the current behavior. _Real_ newbies might indeed not complain (at least not on emacs-devel, Bug-gnu-emacs or similar lists), but they would suffer. Sincerely, Luc. _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
