Re: delete-char vs "mouse-region" and "transient-mark-region"

[Mathias Dahl]

"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

>     1. $ emacs -q
>
>     2. Create two lines of text:
>
>     line1
>     line2
>
>     3. Mark the first one using the mouse and press C-d (delete-char). The
>        marked region will be deleted.
>
> That does not happen when I try it.  C-d just deletes the character
> after point.

Same for me, testing with both Emacs 21.3 and 22 (CVS) under
GNU/Linux. 

>
>     In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>      of 2005-06-26 on NONIQPC
>     X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
>     configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.3) --cflags 
> -I../../jpeg-6b-3/include -I../../libpng-1.2.8/include 
> -I../../tiff-3.6.1-2/include -I../../xpm-nox-4.2.0/include 
> -I../../zlib-1.2.2/include'
>
> Did someone make Emacs on Windows behave differently in this situation?


I will test again on Windows and verify if it works differently there.