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> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 20:58:48 +0000
> 
> Would it be too shocking to change the default
> behavior of some such commands, so that they would
> do something "safer"?

Yes, it would.  E.g., in my use of Emacs, region is almost never
active.  So you in effect propose making these important editing
commands be no-ops by default for me.