Re: About deleting text in emacs

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

cua-mode comes with Emacs 22 (and later). You can just do

  M-x cua-mode

to turn it on for testing. Later you can customize cua-mode if you liked it:

  M-x customize-option
  Customize variable: cua-mode


oyferder wrote:
> Hi. When I restarted emacs at a later time, the "delete section" function
> worked(selecting and pushing delete), so maybe cua-mode was off. But Esc-BS
> and Esc-d worked to delete a word for word, so thx for that commando;)
> However, I should check cua-mode. Do you know where(in the emacs folder)
> cua.el should be installed?
>
> Øystein
>
>
> Peter Dyballa wrote:
> > Am 27.04.2008 um 23:50 schrieb oyferder:
> >
> > > I am using laTex and thus writing .tex files in emacs
> >
> > Were you using AUCTeX? Was cua-mode still on?
> >
> > I am deleting words with Esc-BS or M-d (Esc-d) – these seem to work  
> > all the time.
> >
> > --
> > Greetings
> >
> >    Pete
> >
> > To drink without thirst and to make love all the time, madam, it is  
> > only these which distinguish us from the other beasts.
> >                                 – Beaumarchais