From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Text selection can't be erased by pressing delete Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:19:06 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <9a7443dd-cfc0-4c49-9a42-b64cac261e1f@h17g2000pri.googlegroups.com> References: <87iq353126.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291864223 25321 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 03:10:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 03:10:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 04:10:19 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQWte-0001qy-3t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:10:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46235 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQWW9-0002TO-Hs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:46:01 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!h17g2000pri.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.180.85.8 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1282861146 25624 127.0.0.1 (26 Aug 2010 22:19:06 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:19:06 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h17g2000pri.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.180.85.8; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.127 Safari/533.4, gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180978 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:76521 Archived-At: On Aug 20, 5:45=C2=A0am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote: > Gabriel TEIXEIRA 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. =C2=A0You've been distorted by the lat= er > "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 =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84