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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: delete-char deletes marked text sometimes and sometimes not
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:11:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ek83perv.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uhdd5dpjn.fsf@gmail.com

> I have no problems with that but it seems to me that it should behave
> according to `delete-selection-mode'.

It predates delete-selection-mode, AFAIK.

> OTOH, the problem is probably me, failing to understand that there is
> a difference between a region marked with the mouse and marked using
> temporary transient mark mode.

For what it's worth I agree with you that it's unintuitive.
Please report it via M-x report-emacs-bug RET (which is not just for bugs
but also for misfeatures, bugs, feature requests, ...).


        Stefan

      reply	other threads:[~2005-09-05 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-30 12:59 delete-char deletes marked text sometimes and sometimes not Mathias Dahl
2005-08-31 13:00 ` rgb
2005-09-01 10:56   ` Mathias Dahl
2005-09-05 18:11     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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