Emacs giving error on delete-selection-mode

ravi.xolve · 03-11-2011, 07:33 AM

I am using Emacs 23.2.1 on Opensuse 11.4. I have enabled delete selection mode, but I get this error on it :

Code:

Symbol's function definition is void: delete-selection-mode

Earlier it was working on Ubuntu 10.10 which uses an older version on emacs.

hda7 · 03-11-2011, 08:45 AM

It looks like there is no such function as delete-selection-mode in that version (or something didn't load right). Did you check the changelog? That function may have been removed or renamed between the two versions you had.

hda7 · 03-11-2011, 08:52 AM

If delete-selection-mode wasn't moved or deleted, try

Code:

M-: (require 'delsel)<return>

which should load the file providing delete-selection-mode. If this command fails, the "delsel.el" file may have been deleted accidentally (or is no longer provided with emacs). If it succeeds, but delete-selection-mode still fails with an error, look at the file "delsel.el" and see if the mode name has changed.