Re: Text selection can't be erased by pressing delete

[Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>]

On Aug 20, 5:45 am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
> Gabriel TEIXEIRA <gabriel_teixe...@sdesigns.eu> writes:
> > Hello all,
>
> > I've been working with three simultaneous emacs windows, each one
> > containing a diferent project, and I noticed that two of those three
> > are presenting a weird behaviour. When I select a text in those
> > windows (like by pushing Shift and then the arrow keys), and then I
> > push the key Delete, I expect that the selected/highlighted text be
> > erased, but instead, it erases a single character to the left of the
> > cursor (like would happen without the selection) and the selection
> > disappears (although the same operation works with Backspace or
> > Shift+Delete normally).
>
> This is the normal emacs behavior.  You've been distorted by the later
> "graphical user interfaces".

hi Pascal, that's a point of view. From the other side, it can be
considered that YOU've been distorted by 1980's computing interfaces.

 Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄