From: MadPete AT Mad DOT Pete (Mad Pete)
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Subject: Re: rhide bug... er... FEATURE!
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 04:44:42 GMT
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On Sat, 30 Aug 1997 22:23:41 +0200, mauch AT uni-duisburg DOT de (Michael Mauch) wrote:

>>  Maybe it would
>> be nice to add an environment option that you can toggle using delete or
>> backspace to delete a marked block of text...
>
>Turn off Options->Environment->Persistent blocks, then you have the
>Windows behaviour.

Uhh... doesn't that simply leave a block of text marked even after you use the
arrow keys to move the cursor around?  It still doesn't delete a block of text
(or at least it didn't when I tried it).


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