From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "seberino@spawar.navy.mil" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typed characters? Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:31:12 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <84e4aae8-769f-4200-9d06-f8c8be58276f@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230709246 818 80.91.229.12 (31 Dec 2008 07:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:40:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 31 08:41:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LHviE-00025W-Lf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:41:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39898 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LHvh0-0005US-RU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:40:38 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 8 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.204.54.65 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1230708672 23756 127.0.0.1 (31 Dec 2008 07:31:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:31:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=99.204.54.65; posting-account=VkuUtQkAAADKqMjRUmZTNs7a8uCSNNy2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165658 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60992 Archived-At: 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. How make this happen? (Most newer GUI editors behave like this.) Chris