Re: How to enable overwrite mode?

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]> Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:34:48 +0900

Newsgroups	gmane.emacs.xemacs.general
Organization	The XEmacs Project
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>>>>> "alibeck" == alibeck  <[email protected]> writes:

    alibeck> How can I enable in XEmacs an overwrite option for marked
    alibeck> regions, e.g.  if I mark a word and just type in the new,
    alibeck> it shall automatically overwrite the old word. Also I
    alibeck> want to enable to delete a marked region by pressing the
    alibeck> backspace or delete button on my keyboard.

M-x turn-on-pending-delete RET

In your init file, (turn-on-pending-delete).

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