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Re: Selection region and delete
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jpkotta |
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Re: Selection region and delete |
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Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:05:55 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Monday, July 23, 2012 10:52:47 AM UTC-5, Juha Nieminen wrote:
> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > In article <jujefg$ti$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
> > Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >> In older versions of emacs (when running from X) it used to be that
> if
> >> you had selected a region and pressed the delete key, it removed the
> >> selected region. Now it just works as if no selection had been made
> >> (ie. it just removes the character at the cursor).
> >>
> >> I'm too accustomed to the old behavior. How to restore it?
> >
> > Customize the variable delete-selection-mode.
>
> To what? And how?
>
> There's already a "'(delete-selection-mode t)" under the
> "(custom-set-variables" in my .emacs, and it has no effect on this.
>
> If I do a M-x describe-variable delete-selection-mode, it says
> "It is void as a variable."
>
> If I add the line "(setq delete-selection-mode t)" to my .emacs,
> then describe-variable says "Its value is t", and if I use nil
> instead
> of t it says it's nil. In none of these cases does the delete key
> function properly.
>
> If I select the region with the mouse, then the delete key removes the
> region. If I select the region with the keyboard (using shift) and press
> shift-del, then it removes the region. However, if I select the region
> using the keyboard and press just delete, it doesn't work.
>
> The last one of those cases happens to be the most usual way I use to
> delete a region, and it used to work.
>
> I have been searching for information on this for over an hour, and I cannot
> find the solution. Even gnu's own documentation says that by setting
> delete-selection-mode to 1 it should work, but it doesn't.
<delete> is bound to delete-forward-char by default. The help for that command
mentions the delete-active-region variable. It only has an effect if transient
mark mode is enabled, and it sounds like you want it set to t (t is the
default). I couldn't see the difference between activating and deactivating
delete-selection-mode either.
- Selection region and delete, Juha Nieminen, 2012/07/23
- Re: Selection region and delete, Barry Margolin, 2012/07/23
- Re: Selection region and delete, Juha Nieminen, 2012/07/23
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- Re: Selection region and delete, Juha Nieminen, 2012/07/24
- Re: Selection region and delete, Peter Dyballa, 2012/07/24
- Re: Selection region and delete, Andreas Röhler, 2012/07/24
- Message not available
- Re: Selection region and delete, Juha Nieminen, 2012/07/25
- Re: Selection region and delete, Juha Nieminen, 2012/07/25
- Re: Selection region and delete, Peter Dyballa, 2012/07/25
- Message not available
- Re: Selection region and delete, Juha Nieminen, 2012/07/25
- Re: Selection region and delete, Peter Dyballa, 2012/07/25