Re: How to delete selection on keypress, paste etc

Re: How to delete selection on keypress, paste etc

[Michael Slass]

ignoramus20016@NOSPAM.20016.invalid (Igor20016) writes:

>My xemacs somehow was set to delete selection (region) if it was
>active and I pressed a key, pasted, or pressed DEL.
>
>It no longer does it and just appends to the region without
>deleting it. How can I change that behaviour?
>
>igor

,----[ 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.
-- 
Mike Slass

Re: How to delete selection on keypress, paste etc

[Mats Larsson]

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

Re: How to delete selection on keypress, paste etc

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "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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