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Re: How to delete selection on keypress, paste etc
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: How to delete selection on keypress, paste etc |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:39:18 +0900 |
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>>>>> "Mats" == Mats Larsson <Mats.Larsson@uab.ericsson.se> writes:
Mats> The equivalent for XEmacs is pending-delete-mode. But I do
Mats> wonder why hitting the Tab key doesn't replace the
Mats> selection. Bug or feature?
Feature. The idea is that TAB and LF (C-j) characters are generally
bound to formatting functions which manipulate leading whitespace,
rather than general text-changing functions.
This possibly should be customizable, but it's not obvious what
behavior would be least astonishing here. :-)
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