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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typed characters?
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:45:47 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k59gg53p.fsf@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 84e4aae8-769f-4200-9d06-f8c8be58276f@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com

seberino@spawar.navy.mil (2008-12-30 23:31 -0800) wrote:

> How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typed characters?
>
> When you hightlight text in Emacs and then type new text, the new text
> does NOT replace the highlighted text.

I think you need cua-mode for that. There's option cua-delete-selection
which you need to switch on. See:

    C-h f cua-mode RET
    M-x customize-group RET cua RET


  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-31  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-31  7:31 How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typed characters? seberino
2008-12-31  7:45 ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2008-12-31 16:36   ` How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typedcharacters? Drew Adams
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3642.1230741418.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-31 16:55     ` Teemu Likonen
2008-12-31 17:15       ` Drew Adams

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