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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Teemu Likonen'" <tlikonen@iki.fi>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typedcharacters?
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:36:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000e01c96b65$fd7f5820$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k59gg53p.fsf@iki.fi>

> > How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typed characters?
> >
> > When you hightlight text in Emacs and then type new text, 
> the new text
> > does NOT replace the highlighted text.
> 
> I think you need cua-mode for that. There's option 
> cua-delete-selection
> which you need to switch on. See:
> 
>     C-h f cua-mode RET
>     M-x customize-group RET cua RET

I disagree - or, rather, it depends what you want. `cua-selection-mode' is
`cua-mode' without a lot of extra key bindings. It will do what you request.

I recommend `delete-selection-mode', in library `delsel.el'. It does just what
you want.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DeleteSelectionMode





  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-31 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-31  7:31 How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typed characters? seberino
2008-12-31  7:45 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-12-31 16:36   ` Drew Adams [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3642.1230741418.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-31 16:55     ` How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typedcharacters? Teemu Likonen
2008-12-31 17:15       ` Drew Adams

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