[Mageia-discuss] emacs text selection

[Gilberto F da Silva]

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On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:33:24PM +0100, Juergen Harms wrote:
> Preparing to change distros - go to Mageia - I am reviewing some of
> my "laziness based habits" and try to migrate from xemacs to emacs.
> No fundamental problem, but I hit a weird aspect:
> 
> When, in emacs, I select a region of text and than type a character,
> I expect (and have the habit) that the newly typed character would
> replace the entire selected region: no, when the character is typed,
> emacs de-selects the region and inserts the character (i.e. appends
> it) after the region.
> 
> Is this a known and accepted particular aspect of emacs (practically
> all other text editors I know replace a selected the region when new
> text is typed)? is there a standard way in emacs to configure emacs
> to "behave" as expected? if not, are there established key bindings
> which allow to make emacs behave like other editors?

  Put in your .emacs file This line:

(delete-selection-mode 1)

                       I found this solution here:
                                              
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DeleteSelectionMode


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