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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Zachary Kanfer <zkanfer@gmail.com>
Cc: 62892@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62892: proposal to extend mark-sexp to go forward and backward on command
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:11:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y1mrq8yg.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFXT+RN4zLaFRYwczji+nxFQjB_r0RRb=NLnmenO3so_ELq5Kw@mail.gmail.com> (Zachary Kanfer's message of "Sun, 16 Apr 2023 22:25:28 -0400")

> C-M-@ is bound to `#'mark-sexp`. This command works incrementally -- that
> is, calling this once marks the sexp after point; calling it again marks
> one more sexp (in total, the two sexps after point).
>
> It would be convenient to easily be able to mark sexps backwards as well.

Did you know that it's possible to switch directions by typing 'C-x C-x'.
After that 'C-M-@' extends the region backwards.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-17  7:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-17  2:25 bug#62892: proposal to extend mark-sexp to go forward and backward on command Zachary Kanfer
2023-04-17  3:06 ` Ruijie Yu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-20  5:25   ` Zachary Kanfer
2023-04-20  7:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-21  5:04       ` Zachary Kanfer
2023-04-21  6:07         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-21  7:24           ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-21  9:51           ` Visuwesh
2023-04-21 13:10   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-23  5:33     ` Zachary Kanfer
2023-04-25 22:26       ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-26  4:41         ` Zachary Kanfer
2023-04-26  6:28           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-27  2:37             ` Zachary Kanfer
2023-04-27 12:25               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-27 18:12                 ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-28  5:28                   ` Zachary Kanfer
2023-05-06  8:49                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-28 17:04       ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-28 19:28         ` Drew Adams
2023-05-04  4:48           ` Zachary Kanfer
2023-05-08 12:28             ` Zachary Kanfer
2023-05-18  3:17               ` Zachary Kanfer
2023-05-18  6:52                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-21  5:46                   ` Zachary Kanfer
2023-05-21  5:58                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-21 14:31                       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-21 14:39                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-21 14:54                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-21 14:56                         ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-21 15:11                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-21 15:41                             ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-22 22:02                 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-23 14:11                   ` Zachary Kanfer
2023-05-25 22:32                     ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-26  6:06                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-31  3:23                         ` Zachary Kanfer
2023-05-31 12:01                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01  3:54                             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-06-01  6:32                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-03  6:10         ` Zachary Kanfer
2023-05-03 17:29           ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-17  7:11 ` Juri Linkov [this message]

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