From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: brendan.halpin@ul.ie (Brendan Halpin) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I want to make C-d works in two ways. Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:50:12 +0000 Message-ID: <87oc5jdfbf.fsf@wivenhoe.ul.ie> References: <55f24183-4134-4748-b9d1-b3864afd39b2@x24g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <8739v8m4hd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: brendan.halpin@ul.ie NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299723689 18052 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2011 02:21:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:21:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 03:21:25 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PxVVE-0002Zo-OE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:21:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39924 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxVVE-0002YC-58 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:21:24 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: individual.net YWzEPrSXXuWMe7lCjly2+gp2xhyuBH6kuTZLRGLEaMmnh5MZE0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:N6ccLLdrNbERQK2kkxKHCLpFzXM= sha1:W0cjbsTpnzKarWpKfl94F4a5F/E= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185780 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:19:57 -0500 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:79933 Archived-At: On Sun, Jul 25 2010, David Kastrup wrote: > delete-active-region is a variable defined in `simple.el'. > Its value is t > > Documentation: > Whether single-char deletion commands delete an active region. > This has an effect only if Transient Mark mode is enabled, and > affects `delete-forward-char' and `delete-backward-char', though > not `delete-char'. > > If the value is the symbol `kill', the active region is killed > instead of deleted. I've just discovered this and I hate it! I reckon I'll just have to (setq delete-active-region nil) and live with being marginalised by all the new kids who want Emacs to be more like Windows. Brendan -- Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F1-009 x 3147 mailto:brendan.halpin@ul.ie http://www.ul.ie/sociology/brendan.halpin.html