On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Glenn Morris <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rgm@gnu.org" target="_blank">rgm@gnu.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Why did you expect `delete-selection-mode&#39; to kill rather than delete?</blockquote></div><br><div>I asked on stack exchange for how to change the behaviour and someone suggested it was a bug.  I figured delete-selection-mode was less of a mouthful than maybe-delete-or-kill-selection-mode ;)</div>
<div><br></div><div>The critical code lines were was also ambiguous and beyond my powers of comprehension:</div><div><br></div><div><div>(put &#39;self-insert-command &#39;delete-selection</div><div>     (lambda ()</div><div>
       (not (run-hook-with-args-until-success</div><div>             &#39;self-insert-uses-region-functions))))</div></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for confirming the default behaviour.  On changing to kill rather than delete with:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>(put &#39;self-insert-command &#39;delete-selection &#39;kill)</div></div><div><br></div><div>I get no self-inserted key, and an extra blank item in the kill ring.</div><div><br></div><div>Regardless, why don&#39;t we call this a hack and not a bug.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Tony</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>