Mercurial > emacs
changeset 30865:fb3d8e6e0497
delete-selection-mode
| author | Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 16 Aug 2000 19:45:30 +0000 |
| parents | 904dafa7e039 |
| children | aad48d49f25c |
| files | man/killing.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/killing.texi Wed Aug 16 19:40:41 2000 +0000 +++ b/man/killing.texi Wed Aug 16 19:45:30 2000 +0000 @@ -49,6 +49,16 @@ The commands' names and individual descriptions use the words @samp{kill} and @samp{delete} to say which they do. +@cindex Delete Selection mode +@cindex mode, Delete Selection +@findex delete-selection-mode +You can arrange for selected text to be killed when you insert something +and replaced by what you insert; this is the way many text interfaces +work. To do this turn on Delete Selection mode. with @kbd{M-x +delete-selection-mode} or using Custom. Also in Delete Selection mode +@key{DEL}, @kbd{C-d} and some other keys will just kill the whole +selection and Transient Mark mode is turned on (@pxref{Transient Mark}). + @menu * Deletion:: Commands for deleting small amounts of text and blank areas.