bug#44005: 28.0.50; Deleting region doesn't work

[Parham Doustdar]

Hi,

Reading the documentation for the variable you just pointed to made me realize that maybe transient-mode is somehow being turned off.

I did `emacs -Q`, and checked the value of `transient-mark-mode' in the customize interface. It says that the value was "modified outside customize".

So, something is setting this variable to nil, even though the standard value is `t'.

No idea how this could be caused (maybe it's caused by the emacs-plus homebrew formula I'm using?) but at least I can get rid of the weird behavior by turning on transient mark mode now.

Thanks a lot everyone for all the help. I really appreciate it.

Best,

Parham

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 9:29 PM Andrii Kolomoiets <andreyk.mad@gmail.com> wrote:

Parham Doustdar <parham90@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi there,
> <DEL> runs `delete-backward-char'.

What is the value of the `delete-active-region` variable?

I can reproduce your issue by these steps:
1. emacs -Q
2. M-: (setq delete-active-region nil)
3. C-x h
4. M-x delete-backward-char

But if I skip step 2 the selected text is deleted.