From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: basic question: going back to dired Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:41:19 +0200 Message-ID: <48884E3F.7020108@gmail.com> References: <4884DC7F.6060406@gmail.com> <200807240338.12611.juanma_bellon@yahoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216892612 751 80.91.229.12 (24 Jul 2008 09:43:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:43:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Nikolaj Schumacher Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 24 11:44:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KLxMu-00049j-Af for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:44:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51267 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLxLz-00088b-C4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:43:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLxL0-0007zD-8c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:42:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLxKu-0007xr-Rf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:42:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44533 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLxKt-0007xb-K9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:42:11 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:42819) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLxKt-00031v-NQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:42:12 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:65089 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KLxKp-00080j-8K; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:42:07 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080723-1, 2008-07-23), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KLxKp-00080j-8K. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KLxKp-00080j-8K c4649b7557113b846b4dccc60c467d95 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:55888 Archived-At: Nikolaj Schumacher wrote: > "Juanma Barranquero" wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 03:38, Juanma wrote: >> >>> On the other hand, selection with shift+arrows seems to me like the crappy >>> stuff I used to do before entering the glory of Emacs. I would go to admit >>> it's a small plus to be able to *also* do it like that, but I think setting >>> the mark, as an anchor, and extend as you move with any other movement >>> command (and that includes, e.g., i-search), is vastly superior. >> We'll have to agree to disagree. I have almost no use for invisible >> regions that extend with movement commands. > > Except for the default on the visible part, there's actually little > difference between the two methods. i-search seems to work in cua-mode, > as well. The only difference is, really, that you either hold shift all > the way through, or hit a key once. I feel the second method is more > comfortable for a touch-typist, but I don't think CUA users are missing > anything here. Both methods are available when you use cua-mode.