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

From: Andrii Kolomoiets <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 22:29:07 +0300

Parham Doustdar <[email-masked]> 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.