Function: delete-active-region

delete-active-region is an autoloaded, interactive and byte-compiled function defined in delsel.el.gz.

Signature

(delete-active-region &optional KILLP)

Documentation

Delete the active region.

If KILLP is non-nil, or if called interactively with a prefix argument, the active region is killed instead of deleted.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 24.1.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/delsel.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defun delete-active-region (&optional killp)
  "Delete the active region.
If KILLP is non-nil, or if called interactively with a prefix argument,
the active region is killed instead of deleted."
  (interactive "P")
  (cond
   (killp
    ;; Don't allow `kill-region' to change the value of `this-command'.
    (let (this-command)
      (kill-region (point) (mark) t)))
   (delete-selection-save-to-register
    (set-register delete-selection-save-to-register
                  (funcall region-extract-function t))
    (setq delsel--replace-text-or-position
          (cons (current-buffer)
                (and (consp buffer-undo-list) (car buffer-undo-list)))))
   (t
    (funcall region-extract-function 'delete-only))))