Dr. Volker Zell wrote: x-init.el has: ;; Motif-ish bindings ;; The following two were generally unliked. ;;(define-key global-map '(shift delete) 'kill-primary-selection) ;;(define-key global-map '(control delete) 'delete-primary-selection) (define-key global-map '(shift insert) 'yank-clipboard-selection) (define-key global-map '(control insert) 'copy-primary-selection) I just added (define-key global-map '(shift delete) 'kill-primary-selection) (define-key global-map '(control delete) 'delete-primary-selection) to my ~/.emacs. -- Glynn Clements <glynn(a)sensei.co.uk&gt;