Re: About deleting text in emacs

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

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
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> Peter Dyballa wrote:
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>> Am 27.04.2008 um 23:50 schrieb oyferder:
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>>> I am using laTex and thus writing .tex files in emacs
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>> Were you using AUCTeX? Was cua-mode still on?
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>> I am deleting words with Esc-BS or M-d (Esc-d) – these seem to work  
>> all the time.
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>> --
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>>    Pete
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