From: Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Selection region and delete
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:16:09 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <juli3p$rh0$2@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 685c4ea6-3e84-4c7e-8278-9e0dc31865ad@googlegroups.com
jpkotta <jpkotta@gmail.com> wrote:
> <delete> is bound to delete-forward-char by default. The help for
> that command mentions the delete-active-region variable. It only
> has an effect if transient mark mode is enabled, and it sounds like
> you want it set to t (t is the default). I couldn't see the
> difference between activating and deactivating delete-selection-mode
> either.
When I try to do a describe-variable on delete-active-region, it says
"no match" (and likewise while writing the name of said variable if I try
to autocomplete it with the tab key, it doesn't find it).
If I add a "(setq delete-active-region t)" to my .emacs file, it has no
effect. (Now describe-variable says that its value is t, but has no
documentation on it.)
Btw, I notice that I failed to mention the version of emacs in my original
post. It's full version is listed as
GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.7)
of 2011-10-30 on build17
I have been fighting with this problem for two days now. If I can't find
a solution, I think the only solution left is to get and build an older
version of emacs. It would be nicer if I had not to do that (because I would
have to bypass OpenSuse's package management) and if the problem were fixable
with just a magic line in .emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-24 7:16 UTC|newest]
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
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 [this message]
[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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