From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: copying and pasting in emacs Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 09:06:24 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <505e7832-81c1-44a8-97fd-5b2db5073b7d@v1g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: <640dcabc-d78f-4006-901f-2689297ea79a@w9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238949646 22345 80.91.229.12 (5 Apr 2009 16:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 16:40:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 05 18:42:05 2009 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 1LqVQ3-0000ks-OE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:42:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56096 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LqVOf-0005ea-IS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:40:37 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v1g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.52.29 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1238947584 18051 127.0.0.1 (5 Apr 2009 16:06:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 16:06:24 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v1g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.52.29; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168218 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:63500 Archived-At: On Apr 5, 7:17=A0pm, luca.pampar...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > I am unable to figure out how to select and copy text as you would do > in another editors: > > For example, one thing I normally need to do is select from the > current position upto the next few words. Normally, I just press shift > + ctrl and the left or right arrow key and the editor would highlight > one word at a time. I have so far been unable to figure out how to > highlight text in emacs using the keyboard. > > Anyone knows how I can do it esp. highlighting one word, line etc. at > a time. > > Many thanks, > > Luca See cua-mode and related stuff (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ CuaMode )