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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Teemu Likonen'" <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typedcharacters?
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:15:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001b01c96b6b$61ebdd10$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874p0k708n.fsf@iki.fi>

> >> I think you need cua-mode for that. There's option
> >> cua-delete-selection which you need to switch on. See:
> 
> > I disagree - or, rather, it depends what you want.
> > `cua-selection-mode' is `cua-mode' without a lot of extra key
> > bindings. It will do what you request.
> >
> > I recommend `delete-selection-mode', in library `delsel.el'. It does
> > just what you want.
> >
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DeleteSelectionMode
> 
> I don't like cua-mode's key bindings either. I just didn't know any
> other way of getting what the original poster wanted. But now I know,
> thanks. :-)

I should also have mentioned this more general page - it describes several
alternatives:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CopyAndPaste

And delete-selection mode, cua-selection-mode, and cua-mode are no doubt
described in the Emacs manual, as well.





      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-31 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-31  7:31 How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typed characters? seberino
2008-12-31  7:45 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-12-31 16:36   ` How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typedcharacters? Drew Adams
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3642.1230741418.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-31 16:55     ` Teemu Likonen
2008-12-31 17:15       ` Drew Adams [this message]

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