Re: Selection region and delete

[Barry Margolin]

In article <jujefg$ti$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
 Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> wrote:

> In older versions of emacs (when running from X) it used to be that if
> you had selected a region and pressed the delete key, it removed the
> selected region. Now it just works as if no selection had been made
> (ie. it just removes the character at the cursor).
> 
> I'm too accustomed to the old behavior. How to restore it?

Customize the variable delete-selection-mode.

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