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>>>>> "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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