From: Mats Larsson <Mats.Larsson@uab.ericsson.se>
Subject: Re: How to delete selection on keypress, paste etc
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:46:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <06HC9.23$Or2.415957@uab.ericsson.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnatl0ce.71j.ignoramus20016@nospam.invalid>
On 2002-11-19 19:28, Michael Slass wrote:
> ,----[ C-h f delete-selection-mode RET ]
> | delete-selection-mode is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in
> `delsel'.
> | [Arg list not available until function definition is loaded.]
> |
> | Toggle Delete Selection mode.
> | With prefix ARG, turn Delete Selection mode on if and only if ARG is
> | positive.
> |
> | When Delete Selection mode is enabled, Transient Mark mode is also
> | enabled and typed text replaces the selection if the selection is
> | active. Otherwise, typed text is just inserted at point regardless of
> | any selection.
> `----
>
> This is for GNU emacs; don't know whether it works for XEmacs.
The equivalent for XEmacs is pending-delete-mode. But I do wonder why
hitting the Tab key doesn't replace the selection. Bug or feature?
/MOL
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[not found] <slrnatl0ce.71j.ignoramus20016@nospam.invalid>
2002-11-19 18:28 ` How to delete selection on keypress, paste etc Michael Slass
2002-11-20 7:46 ` Mats Larsson [this message]
2002-11-20 8:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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