GNU bug report logs - #60646
28.2; delete-selection-mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Redekopp, Eric" <err291 <at> mail.usask.ca>

Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2023 07:06:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 28.2

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: "Redekopp, Eric" <err291 <at> mail.usask.ca>, "60646 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <60646 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#60646: 28.2; delete-selection-mode
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 09:15:13 +0800

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

>> I would like to express my strong support
>> for enabling delete-selection-mode by default.
>> This is standard for almost all other text
>> applications and feels unintuitive not to have it.
>
> +1.  I've advocated the same for decades.
>
> This should have happened when we turned on
> `transient-mark-mode' by default.  And both
> of those default-behavior changes should
> really have happened long before that.

I disagree, but we've had this argument before, so please just leave
things as they are.

Thanks.
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