RE: How make Emacs replace highlighted text with next typedcharacters?

[Drew Adams]

> >> I think you need cua-mode for that. There's option
> >> cua-delete-selection which you need to switch on. See:
> 
> > I disagree - or, rather, it depends what you want.
> > `cua-selection-mode' is `cua-mode' without a lot of extra key
> > bindings. It will do what you request.
> >
> > I recommend `delete-selection-mode', in library `delsel.el'. It does
> > just what you want.
> >
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DeleteSelectionMode
> 
> I don't like cua-mode's key bindings either. I just didn't know any
> other way of getting what the original poster wanted. But now I know,
> thanks. :-)

I should also have mentioned this more general page - it describes several
alternatives:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CopyAndPaste

And delete-selection mode, cua-selection-mode, and cua-mode are no doubt
described in the Emacs manual, as well.