About deleting text in emacs

About deleting text in emacs

[oyferder]

Hi. I am using laTex and thus writing .tex files in emacs. I have Windows XP
on my system. Recently, I have had a strange problem. I can only delete one
letter at a time(by using delete-button or backspace-button on keyboard). If
I try to select a bunch of text in my file and then push delete-button, I
just delete the one letter after this bunch of text, not the bunch
itself(and if I try to select a bunch of text and then push
backspace-button, I just delete the one letter before the bunch). And the
delete-button on the edit-menu is always grey, also when I select some text.

I hope anyone can help

Øystein Færder
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Re: About deleting text in emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 27.04.2008 um 23:50 schrieb oyferder:

> I am using laTex and thus writing .tex files in emacs


Were you using AUCTeX? Was cua-mode still on?

I am deleting words with Esc-BS or M-d (Esc-d) – these seem to work  
all the time.

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   Pete

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only these which distinguish us from the other beasts.
				– Beaumarchais

Re: About deleting text in emacs

[oyferder]

Hi. When I restarted emacs at a later time, the "delete section" function
worked(selecting and pushing delete), so maybe cua-mode was off. But Esc-BS
and Esc-d worked to delete a word for word, so thx for that commando;)
However, I should check cua-mode. Do you know where(in the emacs folder)
cua.el should be installed?

Øystein


Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 27.04.2008 um 23:50 schrieb oyferder:
> 
>> I am using laTex and thus writing .tex files in emacs
> 
> 
> Were you using AUCTeX? Was cua-mode still on?
> 
> I am deleting words with Esc-BS or M-d (Esc-d) – these seem to work  
> all the time.
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
>    Pete
> 
> To drink without thirst and to make love all the time, madam, it is  
> only these which distinguish us from the other beasts.
> 				– Beaumarchais
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: About deleting text in emacs

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

cua-mode comes with Emacs 22 (and later). You can just do

   M-x cua-mode

to turn it on for testing. Later you can customize cua-mode if you liked it:

   M-x customize-option
   Customize variable: cua-mode


oyferder wrote:
> Hi. When I restarted emacs at a later time, the "delete section" function
> worked(selecting and pushing delete), so maybe cua-mode was off. But Esc-BS
> and Esc-d worked to delete a word for word, so thx for that commando;)
> However, I should check cua-mode. Do you know where(in the emacs folder)
> cua.el should be installed?
> 
> Øystein
> 
> 
> Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>
>> Am 27.04.2008 um 23:50 schrieb oyferder:
>>
>>> I am using laTex and thus writing .tex files in emacs
>>
>> Were you using AUCTeX? Was cua-mode still on?
>>
>> I am deleting words with Esc-BS or M-d (Esc-d) – these seem to work  
>> all the time.
>>
>> --
>> Greetings
>>
>>    Pete
>>
>> To drink without thirst and to make love all the time, madam, it is  
>> only these which distinguish us from the other beasts.
>> 				– Beaumarchais
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>