Re: delete-char vs "mouse-region" and "transient-mark-region"

[Mathias Dahl]

Mathias Dahl <address@hidden> writes:

> "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>     1. $ emacs -q
>>
>>     2. Create two lines of text:
>>
>>     line1
>>     line2
>>
>>     3. Mark the first one using the mouse and press C-d (delete-char). The
>>        marked region will be deleted.
>>
>> That does not happen when I try it.  C-d just deletes the character
>> after point.
>
> Same for me, testing with both Emacs 21.3 and 22 (CVS) under
> GNU/Linux. 
>
>>
>>     In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>>      of 2005-06-26 on NONIQPC
>>     X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
>>     configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.3) --cflags 
>> -I../../jpeg-6b-3/include -I../../libpng-1.2.8/include 
>> -I../../tiff-3.6.1-2/include -I../../xpm-nox-4.2.0/include 
>> -I../../zlib-1.2.2/include'
>>
>> Did someone make Emacs on Windows behave differently in this situation?
>
>
> I will test again on Windows and verify if it works differently there.

Hmm, I tested again now and now it works the same. Sorry for the
noise.

/Mathias