Re: Selection region and delete

[Juha Nieminen]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> wrote:
> Am 24.07.2012 09:23, schrieb 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.)
>>
> 
> M-x customize-variable RET delete-selection-mode RET

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