RE: Manageable and predictable text insertion

What do you think of the Replace idea in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-editing-tf/2014Nov/0031.html ?

From: Olivier Forget [mailto:teleclimber@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 2:30 PM
To: Ben Peters
Cc: Piotr Koszuliński; public-editing-tf@w3.org
Subject: Re: Manageable and predictable text insertion


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Ben Peters <Ben.Peters@microsoft.com<mailto:Ben.Peters@microsoft.com>> wrote:
Got it. But if there is no handler in 2, then doesn’t it get into a strange state where characters are inserted while there is still a selection?


Yes.

And yes, that would be unexpected for the user. But it's intended to be used as a low(er) level building block by developers, not as a complete drop-in solution like cE=true.