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Sometimes (rarely I would say) I press C-w by mistake and if the mark defines a non empty region, it gets deleted.

The few times this happened I just pressed undo, but I am afraid that sooner or later I will delete something without noticing.

Is it possible to tell emacs not to delete a region if it is not selected? It never happened to me to wanting to kill a region which was not selected, so this workaround would fix my problem.

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I think you're looking for:

(setq mark-even-if-inactive nil)
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  • exactly what I was looking for.... but it broke multiple cursors! If I select a word and then use mc/mark-next-like-this and then type something, I get an error. Any way to make them work together?
    – Nisba
    Commented Jun 3, 2018 at 12:56
  • @Nisba: Better ask the author of multiple-cursors.
    – Stefan
    Commented Jun 3, 2018 at 20:06

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