Re: delete-selection-mode

   "Alfred M. Szmidt" <amsgnu.org> writes:

   > How about talking about users in general, not only
new users use
   > emacs, emacs should have good defaults for both new
and old users.

   If they had the same expectations, yes. But they are
often
   incompatibles. In such a case, new users expectations
should take
   precedence, simply because :
    - new users might give up because they don't realize
that what they
      don't like is only a default setting, not inherent to
the emacs
      program itself
    - old user know how to change a simple setting in 30
seconds

That is very short sighted way of looking at things, new
users will
become old users with time.  A default setting is default
because it
common by those who use something alot; if one cannot use
emacs out of
the box without having to modify things, then something is
terribly
wrong.