Re: delete-selection-mode as default

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, hw.

On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 15:48:10 +0200, hw wrote:

> Oh, I see what you mean!

> Emacs has point and (the end of) the region (selection) always entangled
> with no way to separate them or to disable the region.

You want to disable a portion of your buffer?  That doesn't make any
sense.

> That is what I dislike so much, and it causes all kinds of issues.

I do wish you could come to understand what the region is.  It would save
all sorts of problems for you.  The region is not active, never being any
sort of agent, and its existence is determined only by commands which
operate on it.  Point exists and mark exists.  When you run a command
with "-region" in its name, it operates on the buffer between point and
mark.  When you're not running such a command, the region has no
significance.  That's all.

You are attributing problems to the region which really aren't there.  A
section of your buffer is not "always entangled with no way to separate
[it]".  If you don't want to do anything to the region, don't do it.  And
if you do something to it by mistake, which won't happen often, use undo.

> The secondary selection doesn't have all these problems, so it's a good
> example.

> Can we have a mode or something in which there is no association between
> point and the end of the region?  Or can I just configure that
> association away?

Please learn what the region is.  It is just a portion of your buffer.
You cannot have point dissociated from some part of your buffer.  That
doesn't make any sense.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).