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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:28:31 +0200
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>=20
>> > I prefer to think of it as a very convenient feature.  For example, as
>> > I typed this email, I first wrote "as I composed" instead of "as I
>> > typed", pressed Control+Shift+Left Arrow, and pressed "typed".
>> > Similarly, I had first written "I call it" instead of "I prefer to
>> > think of it", and the way I changed one into the other was to select
>> > "call it" and type "prefer to think of it as".
>>=20
>> Neither of those require 'replace selected' behaviour, since you could
>> easily use M-DEL instead.
>
> In Emacs, yes.  Let's not assume everybody here uses only Emacs for
> each and every editing job.

I try to, and then get very annoyed when other programs do things
differently (I=CA=BCm looking at you here, Firefox URL bar).

> So I'm with Cl=C3=A9ment on this one.

I wasn't picking a side, nor do I think we should pick one for anyone
else.

Robert