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 07:23:44 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343114720 14487 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2012 07:25:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:25:20 +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 09:25:20 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 1StZUc-0001sW-Kx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:25:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45843 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StZUb-0006zM-LL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:25:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 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:193623 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:85997 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 23.07.2012 um 17:52 schrieb Juha Nieminen: > >> Even gnu's own documentation says that by setting >> delete-selection-mode to 1 it should work, but it doesn't. > > For me it works. Did you perform your tests in a GNU Emacs launched > with -Q? Either in its *scratch* buffer you can set > delete-selection-mode to t or through the customisation interface > and make the new setting active for this session. I don't know how to set said variable from the buffer. If I type M-x set-variable (enter) delete-selection-mode, it won't let me. (It just says "[No match]".) Setting it in the .emacs file with "(setq delete-selection-mode 1)" has no effect. (describe-variable confirms that its value is 1.)