From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Selection region and delete
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:24:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-B29A6E.11243623072012@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jujefg$ti$1@speranza.aioe.org
In article <jujefg$ti$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> wrote:
> In older versions of emacs (when running from X) it used to be that if
> you had selected a region and pressed the delete key, it removed the
> selected region. Now it just works as if no selection had been made
> (ie. it just removes the character at the cursor).
>
> I'm too accustomed to the old behavior. How to restore it?
Customize the variable delete-selection-mode.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-23 12:01 Selection region and delete Juha Nieminen
2012-07-23 15:24 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2012-07-23 15:52 ` Juha Nieminen
2012-07-23 19:59 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-07-23 20:05 ` jpkotta
2012-07-23 20:17 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-07-24 7:16 ` Juha Nieminen
[not found] ` <mailman.5453.1343073582.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-24 7:23 ` Juha Nieminen
2012-07-24 8:39 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-07-24 11:11 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.5487.1343128324.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-25 5:42 ` Juha Nieminen
2012-07-25 6:11 ` Juha Nieminen
2012-07-25 9:52 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.5554.1343209950.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-25 9:57 ` Juha Nieminen
2012-07-25 10:06 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.5555.1343210807.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-25 11:58 ` Juha Nieminen
2012-07-25 13:16 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-07-25 14:23 ` Juha Nieminen
2012-07-25 20:25 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.5606.1343247908.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-25 21:03 ` Juha Nieminen
2012-07-25 21:27 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.5611.1343251677.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-26 5:30 ` Juha Nieminen
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