From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: How to delete selection on keypress, paste etc
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:39:18 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87adk4hbyh.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 06HC9.23$Or2.415957@uab.ericsson.se
>>>>> "Mats" == Mats Larsson <Mats.Larsson@uab.ericsson.se> writes:
Mats> The equivalent for XEmacs is pending-delete-mode. But I do
Mats> wonder why hitting the Tab key doesn't replace the
Mats> selection. Bug or feature?
Feature. The idea is that TAB and LF (C-j) characters are generally
bound to formatting functions which manipulate leading whitespace,
rather than general text-changing functions.
This possibly should be customizable, but it's not obvious what
behavior would be least astonishing here. :-)
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2002-11-19 18:28 ` How to delete selection on keypress, paste etc Michael Slass
2002-11-20 7:46 ` Mats Larsson
2002-11-20 8:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
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