From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Selection region and delete Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:24:36 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343057112 12003 80.91.229.3 (23 Jul 2012 15:25:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:25:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 23 17:25:12 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 1StKVU-00017k-Ha for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:25:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45748 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StKVT-0003om-PO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:25:11 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="78fb7125a45724f15e21604c94a7d968"; logging-data="27420"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/HMeJALeDLfEmsJTW2scA5" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pd88P6XGQfQf5+DKdVg0uvgudqY= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193609 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:85982 Archived-At: In article , Juha Nieminen wrote: > In older versions of emacs (when running from X) it used to be that if > you had selected a region and pressed the delete key, it removed the > selected region. Now it just works as if no selection had been made > (ie. it just removes the character at the cursor). > > I'm too accustomed to the old behavior. How to restore it? Customize the variable delete-selection-mode. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***