Re: delete-selection-mode as default

[hw <hw@adminart.net>]

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

>> nobody would use d-s-m without t-m-m unless they wanted to do
>> something that doesn't make sense.
>
> Actually, d-s-m requires t-m-m. It turns it on, and each time you try
> to use it it checks that t-m-m is on (if not, it does nothing).

That makes sense.

>> transient-mark-mode says that commands should be limited to the "active"
>> region. 
>
> No, it does not. It simply says that, when it is enabled:
>
>    "the region is highlighted when the mark is active.
>     ...
>     Many commands change their behavior when Transient Mark mode is
>     in effect and the mark is active, by acting on the region instead..."
>
> (That's from `C-h f transient-mark-mode'. Similarly for (emacs) `Disabled
> Transient Mark' and (elisp)`The Mark'.)

Right, it does not very explicitly say that.

Yet the distinction is "operating on the region" vs. "operating on the
buffer".  That is effectively a limitation unless you select the whole
buffer.

I suspect a limitation was the original idea and intention of
transient-mark-mode while an extension was not.  An extension wasn't
even needed, so why would it have been intended?  It probably never came
to mind.  Maybe someone knows for sure.


In any case, isn't it useful for clarification to make a distinction
between limiting and extending?

Please explain why upcase-word is not extended to the active region but
upcase-dwim is.  The description of upcase-word doesn't say what effect
transient-mark-mode and a(n active) region has on it.  Shouldn't that be
clarified?