On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:34:46PM -0700, Jonathan Stickel wrote: > The default setup of emacs for Red Hat causes the "backspace" key to > delete backward 1 character, the "delete" key to delete forward 1 > character, and "C-w" to kill a high-lighted region. > > I would like to have the "delete" key assigned to kill a highlighted > region in addition to deleting 1 character forward. This is common > behavior of most gui text editors and word processors. I tried the > following in my .emacs file: > > (global-set-key [delete] 'kill-region) > > This does assign "delete" to kill-region, but no longer works to delete > forward 1 character. If I the add the following to .emacs: > > (global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char) > > whichever assignment comes last (delete-char or kill-region) takes > precedence. If I have the following: > > (global-set-key [delete] 'kill-region 'delete-char) > > I get errors on emacs startup (see below), but both delete-char and > kill-region are in fact assigned to "delete"! Is there a correct way to > do this? I am new to elisp (obviously).
(global-set-key [delete] (lambda () (interactive) (if mark-active (kill-region (point) (mark)) (delete-char)))) might work: but I don't think that the region is always hilited: this might call kill-region sometimes when you don't want it to. I frequently use emacs in console-mode, where I don't see any hiliting during a marked region, so I wouldn't prefer such a binding. HTH, Micah _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
