From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: delete-char deletes marked text sometimes and sometimes not Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:11:25 -0400 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87ek83perv.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: <1125493236.315523.277220@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125945138 1803 80.91.229.2 (5 Sep 2005 18:32:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 18:32:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 05 20:32:15 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECLjy-0005Q2-4B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:30:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECLoQ-0001DH-6e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:35:22 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Rl3AZTMBAI7x+n2K6AcgrsK7QKE= Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.71.35.49 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1125943885 67.71.35.49 (Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:11:25 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:11:25 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:133677 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:29219 Archived-At: > 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