Re: Selection region and delete

[Juha Nieminen]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> 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.)