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"Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@inka.de> writes:

> It all works fine except in the shell mode. Usually when I select some text 
> and hit the delete key all the selected text is removed. This is, however, 
> not the case in shell mode (M-x shell). Here when I select text and hit the 
> delete key only the character at the mark is deleted. This inconsitent 
> behavior is very annoying. How do I change it?

(require 'shell)
(define-key shell-mode-map (kbd "<delete>") 'delete-char)

Does this do the trick?

kai
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