Re: Three questions

[John Paul Wallington]

"William Payne" <mikas493_no_spam@student.liu.se> writes:

> How do I set my Delete key to delete the currently selected region (and with 
> selected I mean selected using the mouse)?

Turn on Delete Selection Mode; either M-x customize-variable
delete-selection-mode then set and save or put
(delete-selection-mode 1) in your .emacs file.

> Second question: I have the following in my .emacs:
> (setq auto-mode-alist
>       (cons '("\\(\\`\\|/\\)Makefile\\'" . makefile-mode)
>        auto-mode-alist))
>
> My old varaint would trigger Makefile mode (think I just had Makefile$ or 
> something similar), if the path contained the string "Makefile". That wasn't 
> so good. This varaint triggers makefile mode only if the actual file name 
> itself is called Makefile: that is good. However, I want it to trigger make >
> file mode if the file name (not the path!) contains the string Makefile, so 
> Makefile.in would trigger also. What do I need to change to get that?

If you remove the above snippet from your .emacs file then Emacs
should work as you expect by default.  Does it?

> Finally, can I pass a parameter to the configure script when compiling emacs 
> from source to make it build without sound support?

Try configure --without-sound

Generally, running configure with the --help option should
suggest options.