From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Saket Sathe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: newbie: selecting a line in emacs Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:08:52 +0530 Message-ID: <4249AECC.3080202@cc.iitb.ac.in> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112125590 29168 80.91.229.2 (29 Mar 2005 19:46:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:46:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 29 21:46:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGMeT-0007Vx-MQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:45:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGMun-00056m-Pi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:02:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DGMqX-0004AG-OB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:57:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DGMqN-00047V-FB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:57:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGMqM-00040Z-SD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:57:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [203.199.81.149] (helo=smtp1.iitb.ac.in) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DGMXf-0004Lg-I9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:38:24 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 24887 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2005 01:08:16 +0530 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ldns2.iitb.ac.in) (10.200.12.2) by smtp1.iitb.ac.in with SMTP; 30 Mar 2005 01:08:16 +0530 Original-Received: (qmail 20188 invoked by uid 780); 29 Mar 2005 19:38:13 -0000 Original-Received: from 10.100.116.111 by ldns2 (envelope-from , uid 502) with qmail-scanner-1.23 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(10.100.116.111):. Processed in 0.017962 secs); 29 Mar 2005 19:38:13 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.100.116.111?) (10.100.116.111) by ldns2.iitb.ac.in with SMTP; 29 Mar 2005 19:38:12 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25270 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25270 hi, How do I select an entire line in emacs for yanking/pasting etc. -- Saket. ... No word is ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.