From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Copy/paste issue. Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 04:19:50 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336364415 29709 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2012 04:20:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 04:20:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 07 06:20:15 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SRFQj-0002TU-CM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 06:20:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56701 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRFQi-00061f-J8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 00:20:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1336364390 25882 166.84.1.1 (7 May 2012 04:19:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 04:19:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192336 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84744 Archived-At: In article , XeCycle wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- ... > >It should come from delete-selection-mode. > I was first thinking that maybe he had gotten into overwrite-mode. Now, I'd never hear do delete-selection-mode, so I did a C-h f on it: | delete-selection-mode is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `delsel'. | (delete-selection-mode &optional arg) | | Toggle Delete Selection mode. | With prefix arg, turn Delete Selection mode on if and only if arg is | positive. | | When Delete Selection mode is enabled, Transient Mark mode is also | enabled and typed text replaces the selection if the selection is | active. Otherwise, typed text is just inserted at point regardless of | any selection. Question: what are some of the uses of this mode? Maybe name 2 or 3 uses, so I can understand if it's something I should get familiar with. THANKS! David