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Re: How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typed characters?


From: Teemu Likonen
Subject: Re: How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typed characters?
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:45:47 GMT
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux)

seberino@spawar.navy.mil (2008-12-30 23:31 -0800) wrote:

> How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typed characters?
>
> When you hightlight text in Emacs and then type new text, the new text
> does NOT replace the highlighted text.

I think you need cua-mode for that. There's option cua-delete-selection
which you need to switch on. See:

    C-h f cua-mode RET
    M-x customize-group RET cua RET


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