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: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:42:52 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343195113 8778 80.91.229.3 (25 Jul 2012 05:45:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:45:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 25 07:45:13 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 1StuPJ-0006G9-CS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:45:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40864 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1StuPI-0000t2-P0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 01:45:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 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:193637 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:86012 Archived-At: Andreas Röhler wrote: > Am 24.07.2012 09:23, schrieb Juha Nieminen: >> 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.) >> > > M-x customize-variable RET delete-selection-mode RET [No match]