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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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      reply	other threads:[~2002-11-20  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [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
2002-11-20  8:39     ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]

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