* delete-char deletes marked text sometimes and sometimes not
@ 2005-08-30 12:59 Mathias Dahl
2005-08-31 13:00 ` rgb
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From: Mathias Dahl @ 2005-08-30 12:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
Try this in CVS Emacs:
$ emacs-22-xyz -q
Type some text and mark it by temporarily activating
transient-mark-mode (C-SPC C-SPC). Press C-d (delete-char). This does
nothing to the text, which was expected (at least for a long-time
Emacs-user... :)
Now type some more text and this time mark the text using the
mouse. Now press C-d again. Voila! Text deleted!
What is this magic? Some "stuff" in the text properties, or what?
/Mathias
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* Re: delete-char deletes marked text sometimes and sometimes not
2005-08-30 12:59 delete-char deletes marked text sometimes and sometimes not Mathias Dahl
@ 2005-08-31 13:00 ` rgb
2005-09-01 10:56 ` Mathias Dahl
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From: rgb @ 2005-08-31 13:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
> Type some text and mark it by temporarily activating
> transient-mark-mode (C-SPC C-SPC). Press C-d (delete-char). This does
> nothing to the text, which was expected (at least for a long-time
> Emacs-user... :)
>
> Now type some more text and this time mark the text using the
> mouse. Now press C-d again. Voila! Text deleted!
>
> What is this magic? Some "stuff" in the text properties, or what?
Could this be it?
mouse-region-delete-keys's value is
([delete]
[deletechar])
List of keys which shall cause the mouse region to be deleted.
Defined in `mouse'.
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* Re: delete-char deletes marked text sometimes and sometimes not
2005-08-31 13:00 ` rgb
@ 2005-09-01 10:56 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-09-05 18:11 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Mathias Dahl @ 2005-09-01 10:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
"rgb" <rbielaws@i1.net> writes:
> Could this be it?
>
> mouse-region-delete-keys's value is
> ([delete]
> [deletechar])
>
>
> List of keys which shall cause the mouse region to be deleted.
Aha!
I have no problems with that but it seems to me that it should behave
according to `delete-selection-mode'.
OTOH, the problem is probably me, failing to understand that there is
a difference between a region marked with the mouse and marked using
temporary transient mark mode.
/Mathias
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* Re: delete-char deletes marked text sometimes and sometimes not
2005-09-01 10:56 ` Mathias Dahl
@ 2005-09-05 18:11 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2005-09-05 18:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
> I have no problems with that but it seems to me that it should behave
> according to `delete-selection-mode'.
It predates delete-selection-mode, AFAIK.
> OTOH, the problem is probably me, failing to understand that there is
> a difference between a region marked with the mouse and marked using
> temporary transient mark mode.
For what it's worth I agree with you that it's unintuitive.
Please report it via M-x report-emacs-bug RET (which is not just for bugs
but also for misfeatures, bugs, feature requests, ...).
Stefan
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