From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Selection region and delete Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:11:38 +0200 Message-ID: <500E82EA.1000300@easy-emacs.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343128340 21603 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2012 11:12:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:12:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 24 13:12:17 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 1Std28-00083X-VI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:12:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45168 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Std27-0001oX-J0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:12:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38228) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Std1x-0001nm-4N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Std1p-0007AO-Jg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:11:57 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8]:61287) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Std1p-0007AA-9N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:11:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (brln-4d0c25bf.pool.mediaWays.net [77.12.37.191]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu4) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0M9RFK-1SychQ2Kze-00ChnF; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:11:46 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120601 Thunderbird/13.0 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:29QNcV02d8iG3MjsxLdaduklkex6szx2JoymR9rmjXe eCil8k2qeE5mRX0S//PA0LO1+rDMuu89jv1tjIhIJG/AyNYYM+ gRzvRLPunlGSbrm4rJpFhQS6StpoNvJs+ck10vPdyvWqF26ph1 gzN/XvmH8F9vgko0Qn14NbwCurmH+oagB/giaboa2F/4PYhivN VULMl/JJwMVMtp0Yu/sLBtNsjYnDmvvLBs32c5Zv8f5jBTvFDY TvjPtt6OFVTQcQhmgAzfIwWqjQZRuDcc0Jabsc2NMIrFlGSq52 RwqbmKBq+2PDjLhGnZ2orRbv1FWt/Rl+n1CkQ7jGiGJjQV7P3I 4MF4KDqdQNZz/dAH5v8IHjuuEhoSKHYE4W+1PY6Ts X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.227.17.8 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:86001 Archived-At: Am 24.07.2012 09:23, schrieb Juha Nieminen: > Peter Dyballa wrote: >> >> Am 23.07.2012 um 17:52 schrieb Juha Nieminen: >> >>> Even gnu's own documentation says that by setting >>> delete-selection-mode to 1 it should work, but it doesn't. >> >> For me it works. Did you perform your tests in a GNU Emacs launched >> with -Q? Either in its *scratch* buffer you can set >> delete-selection-mode to t or through the customisation interface >> and make the new setting active for this session. > > I don't know how to set said variable from the buffer. If I type > M-x set-variable (enter) delete-selection-mode, it won't let me. > (It just says "[No match]".) > > Setting it in the .emacs file with "(setq delete-selection-mode 1)" > has no effect. (describe-variable confirms that its value is 1.) > M-x customize-variable RET delete-selection-mode RET having it to nil, saved accordingly, should do it