How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typed characters?

How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typed characters?

[seberino]

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.

How make this happen?  (Most newer GUI editors behave like this.)

Chris

Re: How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typed characters?

[Teemu Likonen]

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

RE: How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typedcharacters?

[Drew Adams]

> > 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

I disagree - or, rather, it depends what you want. `cua-selection-mode' is
`cua-mode' without a lot of extra key bindings. It will do what you request.

I recommend `delete-selection-mode', in library `delsel.el'. It does just what
you want.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DeleteSelectionMode

Re: How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typedcharacters?

[Teemu Likonen]

Drew Adams (2008-12-31 08:36 -0800) wrote:

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

> I disagree - or, rather, it depends what you want.
> `cua-selection-mode' is `cua-mode' without a lot of extra key
> bindings. It will do what you request.
>
> I recommend `delete-selection-mode', in library `delsel.el'. It does
> just what you want.
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DeleteSelectionMode

I don't like cua-mode's key bindings either. I just didn't know any
other way of getting what the original poster wanted. But now I know,
thanks. :-)

RE: How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typedcharacters?

[Drew Adams]

> >> I think you need cua-mode for that. There's option
> >> cua-delete-selection which you need to switch on. See:
> 
> > I disagree - or, rather, it depends what you want.
> > `cua-selection-mode' is `cua-mode' without a lot of extra key
> > bindings. It will do what you request.
> >
> > I recommend `delete-selection-mode', in library `delsel.el'. It does
> > just what you want.
> >
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DeleteSelectionMode
> 
> I don't like cua-mode's key bindings either. I just didn't know any
> other way of getting what the original poster wanted. But now I know,
> thanks. :-)

I should also have mentioned this more general page - it describes several
alternatives:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CopyAndPaste

And delete-selection mode, cua-selection-mode, and cua-mode are no doubt
described in the Emacs manual, as well.