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> From: Greg Fenton <greg.fenton_NOSPAM_@ianywhere.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:38:43 -0500
> 
> The problem for newbies is realizing that "selecting text" in Emacsen 
> speak is "Marking a region"...

For those, there's the "Edit->Select All" menu-bar menu item, and the
"Selection" entry in the manual's Glossary.