From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: Hugh Mayfield <hugh.mayfield@opengroupware.ch>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mark
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 17:28:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54A71BA4.3010709@mousecar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54A6CD81.60109@opengroupware.ch>
On 01/02/2015 11:55 AM, Hugh Mayfield wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Sorry for newbie question. After a while, Emacs starts behaving all the
> time as if I have typed C-SPC. That is, whenever I move point, the text
> between point and the previous location of point is highlighted. How do
> I disable this, please? Also, how did I invoke it, so I can avoid the
> same happening again? Various web searches and looking at the manual
> left me none the wiser.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hugh
>
Yeah, that happens to me too. That "feature" came into emacs a few
years ago around the same time that some people wanted emacs to act more
like Windows. If there's a way to turn it off, I'd like to know too.
All I can say is, when you see it happening, do "C-g" to turn off the
highlighting. It can happen again. So you do "C-g" again. Ad infinitum.
What's really bad is if you type a printable character when some area
(region) is highlighted (which you might miss if the region is offscreen
or if you're not constantly watching the screen). Then everything
highlighted will be replaced by that printable character. Apparently
that's what you're supposed to want to happen. Apparently #2, "C-w" is
too much work if you want to wipe out a block of text.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-02 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-02 16:55 Mark Hugh Mayfield
2015-01-02 22:28 ` ken [this message]
2015-01-02 22:33 ` Mark Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-02 22:49 ` Mark Hugh Mayfield
2015-01-02 23:32 ` Mark ken
2015-01-02 23:38 ` Mark Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-03 0:15 ` Mark Bob Proulx
2015-01-03 18:27 ` Mark H. Dieter Wilhelm
2015-01-03 18:57 ` Mark Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-03 20:15 ` Mark Charles Millar
2015-01-04 10:34 ` Mark Hugh Mayfield
2015-01-11 16:21 ` Mark Hugh Mayfield
2015-01-11 17:22 ` Mark Yuri Khan
2015-01-11 19:38 ` Mark Charles Millar
2015-01-12 6:14 ` Mark Yuri Khan
2015-01-11 20:02 ` Mark Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-12 6:20 ` Mark Yuri Khan
2015-01-12 13:16 ` Mark Charles Millar
2015-01-12 14:22 ` Mark Charles Millar
2015-01-12 16:08 ` Mark Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-12 16:18 ` Mark Yuri Khan
2015-01-12 16:31 ` Mark Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-03 20:20 ` Mark H. Dieter Wilhelm
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