From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juha Nieminen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Selection region and delete Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:16:09 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <685c4ea6-3e84-4c7e-8278-9e0dc31865ad@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343114419 12272 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2012 07:20:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:20:19 +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 09:20:19 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 1StZPm-0006qi-Dk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:20:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44928 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StZPl-0006Jq-BM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:20:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: x6oKauqjz/aVLymSbCEcrg.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: tin/1.9.6-20100522 ("Lochruan") (UNIX) (Linux/3.1.10-grbfs-kapsi (x86_64)) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193622 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:85996 Archived-At: jpkotta wrote: > is bound to delete-forward-char by default. The help for > that command mentions the delete-active-region variable. It only > has an effect if transient mark mode is enabled, and it sounds like > you want it set to t (t is the default). I couldn't see the > difference between activating and deactivating delete-selection-mode > either. When I try to do a describe-variable on delete-active-region, it says "no match" (and likewise while writing the name of said variable if I try to autocomplete it with the tab key, it doesn't find it). If I add a "(setq delete-active-region t)" to my .emacs file, it has no effect. (Now describe-variable says that its value is t, but has no documentation on it.) Btw, I notice that I failed to mention the version of emacs in my original post. It's full version is listed as GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.7) of 2011-10-30 on build17 I have been fighting with this problem for two days now. If I can't find a solution, I think the only solution left is to get and build an older version of emacs. It would be nicer if I had not to do that (because I would have to bypass OpenSuse's package management) and if the problem were fixable with just a magic line in .emacs.