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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: cutting text in xedit (X in general)
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.172837.6539@wrl.dec.com>
Date: 29 Aug 90 17:28:37 GMT
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In article <1414@ziggy.EDU>, hughes@packrat.csee.usf.edu (Ken Hughes) writes:
|> 
|> I've read thru the documentation on this (I think) and haven't seen anywhere
|> how to delete/cut a selection from an xedit window. 

Cutting text is handled by the application.  xedit uses the Athena text
widget where the default key binding for deleting selections is
control-w (the UNIX delete word convention).  You may remap this
binding through the translations resource.  Many people use the delete
key instead of control-w.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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